The Hospice Education Network (HEN) has made its entire catalog of courses available on iPhones, Android phones and iPads, plus newer Blackberries and Kindles. In addition to viewing lectures and earning credits on desktop and laptop PCs and Macs, hospice nurses and administrators can now access HEN’s courses – nearly 200 and steadily growing – […]
PlayMaker CRM (Franklin, TN) and CellTrak Technologies (Schaumburg, IL) have executed a partnership agreement for joint marketing efforts. In announcing the agreement, Michael K Wons, President and CEO of CellTrak Technologies commented, “We value this Strategic Marketing Partnership as we see PlayMaker as a segment leader in CRM solutions for Homecare.” Wons added, “Both solutions […]
Product Review: Honeywell HomMed’s Mobile PERS Lets People Carry Safety Net With Them by Audrey Kinsella LifeStream™ MobileHelp® is a package of products and services for tracking and managing clients’ activities on an as-needed basis. Like Great Call’s 5Star Urgent Response™ system, now being incorporated into Independa, Inc.’s Artemis™ wireless monitoring ecosystem (see “Safe at […]
Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. (Plainview, NY) has announced a newly available integration to the Tom Tom Web Fleet product line, with dynamic GPS routing capability. Fastrack clients will use this capability in conjunction with the company’s enterprise software solution for Home Medical Equipment (HME DME), Respiratory and Home Infusion Pharmacy providers.
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.
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 […]
Phil Chuang, PhD, FHIMSS is the CIO for Sutter VNA and Hospice, a Northern California not-for-profit affiliated with Sutter Health System. Edward Elliott is the agency’s Technical Services Manager. Like many in their positions, they learned more than they thought they would during the process of implementing a clinical point-of-care system across multiple branches. The […]
