by Audrey Kinsella Home healthcare clinicians have always prided themselves on being closer to their patients than other clinicians can be. They do not mean merely physically closer but speak of a personal closeness as well. They know pets’ names, favorite foods, and they know of the difficulties following directives regarding dietary needs, medication […]
by Audrey Kinsella “Tracking for Health,” is a newly released report of a telephone survey of 3,014 U.S. adults conducted during August and September 2012. Participants were asked to describe their self-tracking of healthcare symptoms and routines. According to the author, Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Pew Internet & American Life Project, 62% of […]
Express Billing Reduces Overhead Costs Plainview, NY — Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. has released Express Billing, a new automation feature that the company describes as the industry’s fastest method to generate bills to Medicare, Medicaid, invoice carriers, private pay facilities and wholesale accounts. Traditionally, HME Software Systems required running a variety of processes to […]
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 […]
