by Audrey Kinsella Partners Healthcare’s “Center for Connected Health” is sponsoring its 11th annual conference and, as this year’s title indicates, it is made-to-order for a home healthcare audience. “Connected Health in Practice: Engaging Patients and Providers Outside of Traditional Care Settings” runs October 23-24 in Boston. Program details are available at: http://symposium.connected-health.org/agenda/2014.Organizers’ notes about […]
by Liz Seegert In a lush desert resort setting, under cloudless skies and daily highs in the low 80s, attendees at last week’s inaugural THRIVE seminar, Healthcare in Transition, learned innovative strategic insights from industry-leading experts, enjoyed hands-on demonstrations of the latest home care technologies, and mingled up-close-and-personal with colleagues and keynote speakers during this […]
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by Robert Moretta Jr., MBA (cand.) The United States is in the early stages of a demographic shift as the percentage of elderly citizens steadily increases, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Home health care agencies should anticipate this shift by taking the initiative to better prepare themselves for the expected influx of new […]
by Audrey Kinsella Developing new home care technologies is one thing. Getting people to actually use them is quite another. At last month’s Connected Health conference in Boston, we were introduced to a number of new technology products designed to thoroughly engage patients in their own health activities and management. Three spotlighted at the conference’s […]
by Audrey Kinsella The upcoming Connected Health Symposium, sponsored by Boston’s Partners HealthCare, may inadvertently go unnoticed because it is scheduled concurrently with the NAHC Annual Meeting, but that would be unfortunate. Titled “Innovations to Build Value, Accountable Care, and Patient Engagement,” the October 25/26 confab will present dozens of high-level talks and presentations on […]
