Can health coaching delivered over a smart phone application help people with Type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar any better than traditional treatment methods? The University of Maryland School of Medicine has published a promising answer to that question, after following 163 patients for a year.
Three quarters of U.S. residents living in areas designated as rural are in the South and Midwest. In remote rural areas there are fewer physicians but more hospital beds per 100,000 people than in cities. Chronic conditions are more prevalent in rural communities and in urban and suburban areas. Telemedicine and telehealth have the potential to transform aspects of rural health care, improving accessibility, quality and affordability.
These are a few of the findings presented in a working paper from UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization, which you can download in its entirety for free. This article summarizes more findings and conclusions like these.
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.
Another insurance company has been convinced that remote patient monitoring systems can reduce hospital recidivism and lower overall patient costs. 270 Humana workers will monitor 60,000 plan members.
Santa Clara, CA and Fairfield, CT — August 2, 2010 — GE (NYSE: GE) and Intel Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture to create a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living. The new company will be formed by combining assets of GE Healthcare’s Home Health [...]
The significance of Monday’s GE/Intel announcement (detailed elsewhere in this week’s issue) is that they plan to market their telehealth systems to people with chronic conditions and their families, not to home health care professionals. This is entirely different from what the other mega-corporations that have acquired their way into this market — Honeywell, Bayer, [...]
The Center for Technology and Aging will fund innovative care transition projects for older adults and persons with disabilities. Grants are designed to expand use of technologies that promote better patient transitions from hospitals, rehabilitation centers or nursing facilities back to homes or other community settings. We provide a complete list of web links to grant application instructions.
– Allscripts to help Central Virginia system share patient data with hospital, physicians and home care
– ATA calls for presentation proposals for 2011 meeting
Combining high-tech monitoring systems with human interactions yielded psychological as well as physical benefits to cancer patients prone to experiencing pain and depression, according to a new study reported in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
There are three standard objections to adding a home telehealth program: does it really work? will patients put up with medical devices making their kitchen or bedroom look like a hospital room? and how in the world do we pay for it? We spoke with a company at this year’s American Telemedicine Association meeting who may have addressed all three.
