by Audrey Kinsella Choosing technology innovations to help people manage their chronic conditions is beginning to resemble the daunting task of deciding how to spend a nickel in an old-time candy store. Overwhelmed by too many choices, you spend hours frozen in indecision. At last month’s Partners HealthCare’s 9th Annual Connected Health Symposium and […]
By Cindy Campbell, RN, BSN “As we move to patient-centered care, our challenge is to use technology to reduce the work of being sick…” One of the most popular presentations at last month’s Healthcare Unbound conference in San Francisco was delivered by home care nurse, executive and consultant Cynthia Campbell, RN, BSN. A longtime home […]
Effect of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the Whole System Demonstrator cluster randomized trial. Philips Telehealth was one of three technology providers selected to provide telehealth systems to the Whole System Demonstrator program, sponsored by Britain’s National Health Service. Results were strongly positive, and strongly contradicted two recent, widely criticized […]
Unity Health System has been committed to using home care technology for several years. To further reduce paperwork and control mileage reimbursement expenses, home care and hospice divisions of the the western New York provider recently implemented the point-of-care visit manager from CellTrak™ on secure BlackBerry smart phones over the Verizon network. In addition […]
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 […]
