by Audrey Kinsella Personal Health Informatics Mull over that one. Not sure quite was it is? It is the field that targets ongoing personal healthcare needs and develops “wellness” technologies for individuals, not to be confused with patients. It is focused not on people with diseases but on health management information and tools that people […]
Hidden among the hundreds of radiology software, computer cart and Meaningful Use solution displays, we discovered quite a collection of important news relevant to home health and hospice. In future issues, we will expand on this week’s brief summaries about Honeywell HomMed, Philips, Independa, LG Electronics, Jardogs, HealthWyse, Intermec, Reflection Solutions, Arcadian Telehealth Monitoring, OtterBox and Sprint.
Colorado home care providers are celebrating this week over nine dollars and forty-five cents. Beginning February 1, agencies may bill Medicaid for providing home telehealth care. Read here how they got there after more than six years of hard work and about the new law’s specific conditions.
By Audrey Kinsella A patient we will call “Miss Devyn” was referred to home health services following knee replacement surgery. A case manager at Indian River Home Care, which serves Indian River County, Florida, assigned Devyn a remote telehealth monitor. Following company policy, the case manager set up the device to track her pain and […]
Can health coaching delivered over a smart phone application help people with Type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar any better than traditional treatment methods? The University of Maryland School of Medicine has published a promising answer to that question, after following 163 patients for a year.
Three quarters of U.S. residents living in areas designated as rural are in the South and Midwest. In remote rural areas there are fewer physicians but more hospital beds per 100,000 people than in cities. Chronic conditions are more prevalent in rural communities and in urban and suburban areas. Telemedicine and telehealth have the potential to transform aspects of rural health care, improving accessibility, quality and affordability.
These are a few of the findings presented in a working paper from UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization, which you can download in its entirety for free. This article summarizes more findings and conclusions like these.
Will proprietary home telehealth devices, manufactured to work with patented home telehealth software and approved by the FDA, one day be an obsolete technology? A new telehealth company, the offspring of one old company and one very old company, is betting it will…and soon. Exclusive interview with Aaron Duerksen, General Manager of Disease Management for Care Innovations.
Another insurance company has been convinced that remote patient monitoring systems can reduce hospital recidivism and lower overall patient costs. 270 Humana workers will monitor 60,000 plan members.
Santa Clara, CA and Fairfield, CT — August 2, 2010 — GE (NYSE: GE) and Intel Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture to create a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living. The new company will be formed by combining assets of GE Healthcare’s Home Health […]
The significance of Monday’s GE/Intel announcement (detailed elsewhere in this week’s issue) is that they plan to market their telehealth systems to people with chronic conditions and their families, not to home health care professionals. This is entirely different from what the other mega-corporations that have acquired their way into this market — Honeywell, Bayer, […]
