Healthcare Market Resources research dispels myths regarding post acute care and in-house referrals In the healthcare reform era, post-acute providers feel pressured to integrate services and optimize partnerships and alliances. Independent home health agencies, jockeying for position to become preferred providers to local hospitals, often feel like second class citizens to in-house or captive agencies.In […]
Cardiocom (Chanhassen, MN ), a leading provider of telehealth products and services, recently learned that Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has alleged that Cardiocom is infringing certain patent rights. Daniel L. Cosentino, Cardiocom’s President and Chief Executive Officer responded to the allegations, saying, “Bosch’s claims are groundless and completely without merit. Cardiocom’s […]
VGo Communications Inc. is teaming with Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire to offer telepresence robots to patients. Four remotely-driven robots will be deployed, not to replace nurses, but to allow patients to access various professional caregivers in addition to – and in the presence of – their visiting nurse.
Bringing dental care services to elderly, disabled, and homebound patients is the mission of Ohana Dental Hygiene Practice (Garden Grove, CA). Due to the fact that oral health is vital to overall systemic health, ignoring it can cause many medical complications. Ohana Dental Hygiene Practice makes dental hygiene services more accessible to this group of […]
Unity Health System has been committed to using home care technology for several years. To further reduce paperwork and control mileage reimbursement expenses, home care and hospice divisions of the the western New York provider recently implemented the point-of-care visit manager from CellTrak™ on secure BlackBerry smart phones over the Verizon network. In addition […]
The ongoing court battle over whether the words “Homecare” and “CRM” can be trademarked escalated this week from complaints of unfair competitive practices to more serious accusations.
A San Francisco-based startup, LifeNexus, Inc., has received a U.S. patent for its iChip™ and Personal Health Card®, introduced in February at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas. There have been wallet-size cards introduced before with personal health information stored on a magnetic strip, but this one is a little different. One’s health data is encoded onto […]
by Audrey Kinsella Jonathan Schwartz is a former President and CEO of Sun MicroSystems. Kian Saneii is a computer engineer from San Diego. Though not acquainted with each other, both are members of The Sandwich Generation, people with busy careers, children to raise and elderly parents to worry about. Both responded independently to the triple […]
by Audrey KinsellaThe recently concluded “2011 Connected Health Symposium,” presented by Partners Healthcare’s “Center for Connected Health,” showcased new healthcare service delivery technologies that will certainly affect all healthcare segments, including home healthcare providers and consumers.The two-day conference, titled “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” took place last […]
ContinuLink Introduces Patient Portal for Physicians and Families Unlike the two patient portals profiled elsewhere in this issue [HCTR, 2/28/2012], Boca Raton-based ContinuLink makes its online product and related services available to its home care provider customers so that they can, in turn, use it to assist patient families. Available since 2006, it is a […]
