Alternate Solutions HealthCare has a unique business model. After starting a traditional home healthcare operation in Ohio in 1999 and finding success, owners Tessie and David Ganzsarto began to provide management services to other agencies. Through their guidance, most of these partners saw their struggling agencies grow by more than 25% in the first […]
by Audrey Kinsella Home healthcare clinicians have always prided themselves on being closer to their patients than other clinicians can be. They do not mean merely physically closer but speak of a personal closeness as well. They know pets’ names, favorite foods, and they know of the difficulties following directives regarding dietary needs, medication […]
Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of German-based Bayer AG, has quietly exited the U.S. home telehealth marketplace. Effective May 1, the international company sold Viterion TeleHealthcare to a newly-formed company that will be known as Viterion Corporation. The new company will receive investment and strategic support from NSD Co., Ltd., a Japan-based IT systems integrator, […]
By Audrey Kinsella Patient engagement is an experience, an expectation and a goal. Persons with chronic conditions, especially in this era of accountable care, reach for the goal as they experience care at the hands of professionals, from whom they expect quality interactions. Patient engagement is a goal at the Center for Connected Health, […]
by Liz Seegert Dave Chase is on a mission. The CEO of Avado, a small tech startup, is committed to helping providers use technology to improve patient engagement. “It’s the patients and family members that make the majority of the decisions,” he said. “They need to feel comfortable with information and choices.” The author provides […]
by Audrey Kinsella Last week’s 2012 NAHC Annual Meeting provided a cogent summary of home healthcare technology’s activities and progress, supporting the conference program’s cited need for the entrée of high-tech products for use by an “age wave of graying boomers.” Examples from Philips Home Health Solutions and Honeywell/HomMed are provided in this article.
