by Audrey Kinsella Philips Lifeline has introduced a free mobile app to help caregivers track care provided to elders living at home. Unlike other such tracking systems we have recently profiled, Philips’ CarePartners Mobile App has no pre-set “to-do” lists specifying task to be completed for elders’ various needs. In this regard, it appear to […]
by Audrey Kinsella Last week’s 2012 NAHC Annual Meeting provided a cogent summary of home healthcare technology’s activities and progress, supporting the conference program’s cited need for the entrée of high-tech products for use by an “age wave of graying boomers.” Examples from Philips Home Health Solutions and Honeywell/HomMed are provided in this article.
With mobile technology continuing to become more pervasive and relevant within the healthcare continuum, put Booth #1528 on your dance card for this month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Schaumburg (Chicago), Illinois-based CellTrak will be demonstrating new cell-based product releases and enhancements for teams of mobile clinicians and home health aides. Details are provided in this […]
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 – […]
CareAnyware, Inc. (Cary, NC), a North Carolina-based provider of web-based home care and hospice software announced last week the release of SmartCare, a proprietary workflow engine designed to change the way customers manage people, tasks and compliance. Details on how the software assists user in achieving clinical and operational best practices are described in this […]
