Healthcare at Home: The Rowan Report

By Audrey Kinsella “Collaboration and Innovation to Engage Patients and Elevate Care” was the agenda at last month’s Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health Symposium in Boston. Three new companies supporting that agenda were showcased in a session titled “The Innovators: 10 Demonstrations of Sensor, Robots and Devices.” InTouch Health (Goleta, CA), OmSignal (Montreal, QC, […]

  A study led by Joshua S. Barclay, M.D., of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, suggests that terminally ill patients with lower incomes are less likely to die at home, even with hospice care. The study analyzed data from census tracts and hospice care provider Online First.