by Audrey KinsellaAt last month’s Partners Healthcare-sponsored conference [in October 2011], “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” new models of home care dominated the high-level discussions. Examples of what could be dubbed “anywhere care,” provided for people requiring regular care to manage chronic conditions, are not home healthcare […]
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 […]
by Audrey Kinsella Saturing (Merrillville, IN) is a family portal for adult children and their elderly parents to assist with and track elderly individuals’ daily routines and participate in their health needs. It began operations in 2008, and joins the ranks of other family-oriented online portals profiled in our March 28 issue (1504, 1505). Like […]
by Audrey Kinsella Personal Health Informatics Mull over that one. Not sure quite was it is? It is the field that targets ongoing personal healthcare needs and develops “wellness” technologies for individuals, not to be confused with patients. It is focused not on people with diseases but on health management information and tools that people […]
By Audrey Kinsella A patient we will call “Miss Devyn” was referred to home health services following knee replacement surgery. A case manager at Indian River Home Care, which serves Indian River County, Florida, assigned Devyn a remote telehealth monitor. Following company policy, the case manager set up the device to track her pain and […]
