Introducing “HeartLegacy,” an Alabama company that makes video messaging between patients and families easy enough for the most tech-averse seniors to use.
Advanced TeleHealth Solutions (Springfield MO) , a telehealth services provider, conducted a study that looked at how improving the post-discharge care of chronic heart failure patients could be a strategy for reducing hospital readmissions. Full details about the study of 83 heart failure patients followed between Feb. and Oct 2011 are provided in this article. […]
WESTBURY, N.Y. — Feb. 6, 2017 — Enhancing the telemonitoring services it has been delivering for more than a decade, Northwell Health Home Care Network announced an agreement with Health Recovery Solutions. The Hoboken, NJ-based telehealth company will provide Northwell patients with Bluetooth-enabled remote monitoring systems. Patients like 100-year-old Bernard Feinstein of Queens (see inset) […]
by Laura Mitchell We have a huge frequent flyer problem in America. No- not a problem – a crisis. And I don’t mean the frequent flyers who get to skip ahead in lines and get free drinks, I mean the frequent flyers that cycle through our hospital emergency rooms, the discharged patients who get readmitted […]
by Liz Seegert Clinical decision support is moving into the field, thanks to a revamp of an old VNA First product. Now known as Eventium, the Milwaukee company demonstrated Latitude, a clinical decision support software application, at last month’s NAHC Annual Meeting. Eventium converted VNA FIRST Home Care Steps Pathways and CoSteps into electronic […]
Victoria, BC — 10/01/2013 — The Procura Group of Companies announced this week that they have partnered with Incendant, the developers of the 360 Patient Engagement Program. (See HCTR, 6/26/13, “New Technology Vendor Review: Video Patient Education System“) Featuring content that was developed and maintained by practicing physicians and nurses, the 360 Patient Engagement […]
A cost-saving measure growing in popularity in hospitals across the country is causing increased readmissions and decreased patient satisfaction. Most home care agencies have experienced the communications and cooperation disconnect caused by hospitalist physicians. Now, two new studies confirm their experience. Published in the August 5 issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM), […]
Analysis by Audrey Kinsella Headlines like these are becoming increasingly, alarmingly, common: “Report: Telemedicine Increases Death Rate” [in the UK’s Online Pharma Times, 6/5/13] “Unintended Consequences: How Telehealth Can Fail to Manage Chronic Diseases” [University of Texas blog post by a nursing school professor] Both pieces imply that telehealthcare can actually worsen a patient’s condition. […]
Kelea Nardini, RN, Director of Parkview Home Care in Pueblo, Colorado, raves about her new patient education system and cites it as the most important tools that has helped drop Parkview’s 60-day hospital readmission rate down to 13.2%, nearly 4 full points under the national average, and simultaneously driven their HH-CAHPS scores above the […]
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 […]
