Moving rapidly into the home health care market after its successful start in CHF disease management, Cardiocom made three significant announcements in recent weeks. This article provides brief summaries of the Minneapolis company’s new interfaces with Thornberry’s NDoc and ContinuLink’s home health application and its internally developed and manufactured, fully integrated pulse oximeter. As per our VW custom, we also provide links to each company’s web site.
If there were awards for best new company name, the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare in Boston, would win for 2010. “Healthrageous” has just completed a significant round of financing and will soon bring to market “personalized, interactive, motivational self-management tools to help individuals shed unhealthy habits, improve their adherence to medical advice and embrace healthy lifestyles.”
New terms always make interesting news. At the ATA meeting last month we learned about “Proactive Passive Monitoring.” These are systems that deploy unobtrusive “person sensitive” sensors, strategically placed in the living space, to monitor motion, impact, bed, door and threshold, motion/temperature and motion/humidity, delivering readings to a central observer. Staff writer Sylvia Talkington’s interview with one of the developer’s of the concept had a lot to say last month about how well we anticipate the needs of elderly persons living alone.
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.
— Philips creates reference design for ZigBee Health Care standard
— PHT Corporation and Entra Health Form Strategic Partnership to Provide Integrated Clinical Trials Technology for Diabetes
— CellTrak to implement for Canadian provider
One of the largest technology companies with a home health and hospice software division has announced it will merge with one of the largest hospital software vendors in a $1.3 billion, all-stock transaction. With a combined client base that will total 1,500 hospitals, 10,000 post-acute organizations and 180,000 physicians, the new company will begin to focus on developing a single, common patient record system.
After 28 years serving home health care providers with software systems for startups and multi-office corporations, Jeff Lewis has sold his company, Lewis, Inc., to Ozark, Missouri-based HealthcareFirst. In an exclusive HCTR interview, Lewis and HealthcareFirst CEO Bobby Robertson describe their plans for the combined company.
In a surprise announcement Monday, telephony vendor Sandata LLC (formerly Sandata Technologies Inc.) announced that it has agreed to acquire the home healthcare assets of Health Systems Solutions, Inc., the New York- and Florida-based software company that provides products such as VividNet, The Analyzer and benchmarking services from the former HQS.
—The Hospice of Baton Rouge has been meeting end-of-life care needs in its community since 1984. When it wanted to get payroll, mileage and paperwork under control, it turned to CellTrak. — Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. found that its customers were having a hard time deciding between hosted and installed software configurations. The HME, Home […]
At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Atlanta this month, Cisco announced the availability of the Cisco HealthPresence™ platform. Cisco staff described HealthPresence as “an advanced, care-at-a-distance technology platform that allows patients to connect with doctors and clinicians for health care consultations.”
