Combining high-tech monitoring systems with human interactions yielded psychological as well as physical benefits to cancer patients prone to experiencing pain and depression, according to a new study reported in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
As a telehealth clinician I can certify there were many new products to jump up and down about at the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting and exhibition. One such technology, spotlighted by a multi-year exhibitor, quietly stole the show for me.
Familiar PERS systems typically place the base station in the middle of the house. The elderly person living alone wears a pendant that opens a phone line on the base and is powerful enough to hear and be heard from several feet away. A five-year old Virginia company had a different idea. At the recent ATA annual meeting, LogicMark demonstrated a PERS with the phone in the pendant. Staff writer Sylvia Talkington spoke with company president Mark Gottlieb last month in San Antonio.
Phytel is a technology company enabling physicians to communicate with their patients at home, and their community-based caregivers such as long term care facilities and home care agencies. It would be a good idea for home care sales and marketing staff to be familiar with what Phytel is up to.
At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta this month, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence™ platform. Cisco staff described HealthPresence as “an advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform that allows patients to connect with doctors and clinicians for health care consultations.”
From Republican leaders to communications company CEOs to physicians in leadership positions, keynote speakers at this month’s HIMSS meeting had a great deal of good news and strong opinions about the importance of Information Technology. Just walking around among the other 40,000 people was often enough to pick up insights into technology trends to watch […]
NEW HOME-TO-HOSPITAL CONNECTED CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM AT MASS GENERAL’S PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PUTS ATTENDING DOCTORS AT PATIENT BEDSIDE 24/7 The eleven-year-old girl – for privacy we will call her Michele – was admitted to the MassGeneral Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at 2:00 am with respiratory distress. The on-call attending physician evaluated Michele, […]
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Health Care Policy & Research, the only research center focused on studying home health care in the U.S., has received funding from The Center for Technology and Aging to test state-of-the art information technology (IT) strategies designed to help elderly patients with cognitive impairment […]
BALTIMORE, MD — Newswise — January 28 — National home care and health care leaders kicked off an 18-month national home-health quality-improvement campaign this month at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.
Two nurses have won recognition as emerging leaders in the field of nursing informatics, selected by the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI) to participate in a jointly supported Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program. ANI and its Nursing Informatics Emerging Leaders Program are jointly supported by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
