by Audrey Kinsella The Visiting Nurse Associations of America believes in the importance and effectiveness of Home Telehealthcare. I was convinced of this positive news within the first five minutes of my most recent interview with Tracey Moorhead, VNAA President and CEO.
0 Reddit Dear Home Care Colleague, The next time a physician demands a “referral fee” from you (I know, it’s illegal; but people tell me all the time that the practice is so common they will never get referrals if they don’t give in and play by the local unwritten rules) show them this […]
New system eliminates routine finger pricks for glucose measurements1 Requires no finger pricks for calibration Advanced Ambulatory Glucose Profile software presents data in a user-friendly, visual chart Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced on September 3 that it has received CE Mark (Conformite Europeenne) for its FreeStyle®Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, a new glucose sensing technology for […]
by Liz Seegert Paul Tang, M.D., may have one of the coolest jobs in health care. As vice president, chief innovation and technology officer at the Druker Center for Health Systems Innovation at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, he is the driving force behind the growing success of linkAges, a new, community-based, multi-generational network designed […]
Great Lakes Health Connect was created in the 2014 merger of two of the nation’s most successful HIEs, Michigan Health Connect and Great Lakes Health Information Exchange. Combining the expertise of the two companies, GLHC sees itself as positioned to meet the growing HIE needs of a wide variety of healthcare providers. Existing connections include […]
by Audrey Kinsella The Visiting Nurse Associations of America believes in the importance and effectiveness of Home Telehealthcare. I was convinced of this positive news within the first five minutes of my most recent interview with Tracey Moorhead, VNAA President and CEO. I spoke with her to dispel any doubts about home telehealth’s use and […]
Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods grows Koa hardwood trees. The Honolulu company keeps track of the 225,000 trees it has planted over the last four years by maintaining a database that contains detailed information about each tree. This is possible because the firm has tagged every tree with passive RFID tags that contain GPS coordinates, information […]
The Procura Group of Companies announced this week that its mobile healthcare solution has achieved a milestone, surpassing the supported delivery of 3.4 million patients visits. Additionally, the growth in mobile device use on the Procura platform is growing at a current pace of 1 million visits served every three months, forecasted to increase […]
Innovations combine high tech and high-touch to support personalized, responsive care CellTrak Technologies, Inc. recently rolled out a new mobile applications platform for home and community care. Already in use in the U.S., Canada and Europe in over 100 locations by more than 3,000 healthcare professionals, the new platform has delivered over 1 million […]
By Liz Seegert Liz Seegert continues her conversation with Tom Maxwell, Chief Strategy Officer for Homecare Homebase. Part 1 of the interview can be found here. HCTR: What’s on the horizon for Homecare Homebase? Maxwell: We’re continuing to develop tools and partnerships for our customers that will give them back an ROI. Our medication […]