Our August 22 weekly survey asked you to tell us what you would ask Barack Obama and Mitt Romney if they were to take questions when they appear at this October’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Good answers. We print the best of them here.
On August 14, 2012, Motion Computing rolled out the next-generation of its F5 and C5 Series tablet PCs for health care and other industries. Although the specifications appear the same, the F5t is marketed mainly in field service industries and the C5t in health care. These new models ship with Windows installed and start at […]
by Liz Seegert With one political convention wrapping up this week and another beginning Monday, we assigned staff writer Liz Seegert to study the published platforms of each party and analyze how home care and hospice would be affected if the Medicare sections of either platform were to become law. First up, the Republican Party […]
Five years ago, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ordered CMS to stop using Social Security numbers on Medicare cards. According to a new report and testimony to Congress by the General Accounting Office (GAO), CMS has not gotten around to complying yet. Details about how CMS intends to correct this oversight and the […]
VGo Communications Inc. is teaming with Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire to offer telepresence robots to patients. Four remotely-driven robots will be deployed, not to replace nurses, but to allow patients to access various professional caregivers in addition to – and in the presence of – their visiting nurse.
by Audrey Kinsella Jonathan Schwartz is a former President and CEO of Sun MicroSystems. Kian Saneii is a computer engineer from San Diego. Though not acquainted with each other, both are members of The Sandwich Generation, people with busy careers, children to raise and elderly parents to worry about. Both responded independently to the triple […]
by Audrey KinsellaThe recently concluded “2011 Connected Health Symposium,” presented by Partners Healthcare’s “Center for Connected Health,” showcased new healthcare service delivery technologies that will certainly affect all healthcare segments, including home healthcare providers and consumers.The two-day conference, titled “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” took place last […]
ContinuLink Introduces Patient Portal for Physicians and Families Unlike the two patient portals profiled elsewhere in this issue [HCTR, 2/28/2012], Boca Raton-based ContinuLink makes its online product and related services available to its home care provider customers so that they can, in turn, use it to assist patient families. Available since 2006, it is a […]
