ZOE® fluid monitoring technology can detect a CHF exacerbation a full two weeks prior to the onset of weight gain. Now, thanks to an arrangement with Philips, more patients will have access to ZOE® monitors and Philips’ home health care agency customers will benefit from a smooth data flow from one to the other.
Home Healthcare Partners is approaching one million patient days with its remote monitoring program. With 11,000 telehealth episodes completed, it has a mountain of data to use when it approaches hospitals with its value proposition. Not the least of its accomplishments is a 6% rehospitalization rate, coupled with a 15% rate among non-monitored patients. How did this Dallas area agency accomplish this?
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Quietly but steadily, 10-year old Cardiocom has grown from a specialty company offering telehealth systems to managed care companies to a full-service hardware manufacturing and software development company with a nurse call center service and a growing list of enterprise clients, including large home health care organizations.
Philips is a company to watch. There is at least one Philips product somewhere in nearly every U.S. household. At that size, one can be sure the company can have powerful influence in healthcare. This video conversation with Philips Healthcare Home Telehealth Solutions marketing manager Mike Lemnitzer offers some clues about the Dutch company’s plans.
Jonathan Linkous is an international leader, respected by doctors, hospital executives, post-acute executives and medical technology entrepreneurs worldwide. In this exclusive video conversation with HCTR, he makes clear the ATA’s commitment to home health care and the promotion of home telehealth systems. Recorded May 18, 2010 at the ATA 15th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
The Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center in North Carolina has received an $870,000 grant to expand its successful remote monitoring service to more rural families. In the last three years, the first phase of the project drove down hospitalization rates to record lows, in some cases to zero.
Since there may have been a little less clarity than we had hoped in the way we phrased our telehealth story last week, we offer some additional detail about Philips Healthcare’s Cardiology Care Cycles products. We will also take the opportunity to clarify our warning about our industry’s slow adoption of home telehealth systems elsewhere […]
TouchPointCare believes in the efficacy of a “data driven” approach to home health care, where caregivers proactively gather patient data and use that information to make treatment decisions. Monitoring programs for homebound patients enable earlier intervention and reduce emergency visits and hospital admissions. The Libertyville (Chicago)-based software company also believes that remote patient monitoring devices […]
NEW HOME-TO-HOSPITAL CONNECTED CRITICAL CARE PROGRAM AT MASS GENERAL’S PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PUTS ATTENDING DOCTORS AT PATIENT BEDSIDE 24/7 The eleven-year-old girl – for privacy we will call her Michele – was admitted to the MassGeneral Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at 2:00 am with respiratory distress. The on-call attending physician evaluated Michele, […]
