The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Health Care Policy & Research, the only research center focused on studying home health care in the U.S., has received funding from The Center for Technology and Aging to test state-of-the art information technology (IT) strategies designed to help elderly patients with cognitive impairment […]
WEDI to Build ICD-10 Vendor Directory. ATA to coordinate telemedicine assistance for Haiti. Small progress noticed in movement toward telehealth reimbursement.
Cisco took its video-based medical communications system to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, signaling its long-range intention to market a version of the system, which many have seen Jack Bauer use on TV’s “24,” directly to the public.
Calling it “the world’s largest trial of remote monitoring of home-based, chronically-ill patients,” Philips has launched a research project in the United Kingdom. More than 400 patients in three England regions will be given home telehealth monitoring equipment and their frequency of hospital use and overall cost to Britain’s National Health Service will be tracked.
Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood than patients who received usual care, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA. The journal also announced a new series on “Caring for the Aging Patient” that might be interesting for home care and hospice staff. Plus, new proof that coffee and tea seem to prevent type II diabetes.
The United States is faced with a choice to spend more on healthcare — money that does not exist — or cut costs over time, according to a report underwritten by AT&T and conducted by Kauffman Foundation and Brookings Institution economist Robert E. Litan. $197 in savings would result from implementing telehealth systems. Failure to make policy adjustments that encourage healthcare providers to take advantage of remote monitoring technologies will cut estimated savings by nearly $44 billion.
New evidence has arrived from outside home health care that remote electronic monitoring more than pays for itself, though the savings accrue to healthcare payers rather than to care providers that have invested in monitoring equipment. In this case, the University of Rochester (NY) found that telemedicine in schools reduces unnecessary emergency department use by more than 22%.
HomeCare Interactive, LLC, has introduced what it calls a new model for telehealth technology. The “HomeCare Interactive® Telehealth 360” replaces the familiar data input/out telehealth box with the home telephone to exchange information directly with an electronic medical record (EMR) in real time. The Galveston software company expects this model of telehealth technology will allow […]
A comprehensive new report provides nine hospital recidivism success stories about inter-agency collaboration projects in nine different regions. We found two that include home health care agencies using advanced technology as their projects’ center pins. This week, a home care agency, hospital and senior clinic in Denver worked together to reduce 30-day readmissions from 20% […]
Once exclusively involved on the disease management side of healthcare, Cardiocom® has recently been making a name for itself within home care and hospice. During July, the Chanhassen, Minnesota home telehealth manufacturer and vendor announced three major new contracts.
