by Audrey Kinsella Saturing (Merrillville, IN) is a family portal for adult children and their elderly parents to assist with and track elderly individuals’ daily routines and participate in their health needs. It began operations in 2008, and joins the ranks of other family-oriented online portals profiled in our March 28 issue (1504, 1505). Like […]
Product review by Audrey Kinsella This week, we profile another entry in our series on the rise of online tools for adult children to track daily activities of elderly parents living independently in their own homes. Using a combination of Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS), wireless motion detectors and other sensors, SimplyHome (Asheville, NC) […]
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.
Sandata Technologies announced today the appointment of healthcare technology industry veteran Tom Underwood as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Harold Blue, who will become Vice Chairman of the company’s board.
If we were in a Disney movie, one might call this another symbol of the circle of life. This week, former McKesson Technology Solutions President Pamela Pure joined HealthMEDX, the company formed by the team that created MSI in the 1980’s and eventually sold it to hospital software vendor HBOC, which was later acquired by McKesson Corporation. Pure joins HealthMEDX as it takes on a growth investment infusion from Spectrum Equity Investors and Trident Capital.
Last week we reported that longtime home care and home medical equipment software vendor CareCentric had been acquired by Mediware. Knowing many readers are likely to be unfamiliar with both names, we spoke with division leader Ken Pereira to gather additional insights into the meaning of the acquisition.
On June 8, we received an unsigned email from “HomeCareNews@vistomail.com,” an apparently phony email address from a non-existent publication. It included a link to a Pennsylvania court document, a lawsuit filed against Atlanta-based software company HomecareCRM. Our attempts to contact the plaintiff, Health Market Science, Inc., both directly and through the suspect email address, have been unsuccessful. Wednesday we received this official statement from HomecareCRM…
One of the oldest home care software companies — and clearly the one with the most complicated and interesting history — is now a part of the growing Mediware Information Systems empire, which already included Healthcare Automation Inc., Advantage Reimbursement Inc. and Hann’s On Software.
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.
The Anaheim, California home care software vendor timed this Xerox partnership announcement with the release of its new point-of-care data capture system that can be used with laptops, netbooks, tablets and the iPad, plus paper document scanning systems.
