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Oct
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: chronic disease patient management, healthcare continuum, home healthcare technology, home telehealth monitoring, lifetime care, medication management, mobile technology, passive monitoring, patient engagement, patient self management tools, personal emergency response system (PERS), senior care, Vendor News
by Audrey Kinsella Last week’s 2012 NAHC Annual Meeting provided a cogent summary of home healthcare technology’s activities and progress, supporting the conference program’s cited need for the entrée of high-tech products for use by an “age wave of graying boomers.” Examples from Philips Home Health Solutions and Honeywell/HomMed are provided in this article.
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03
Oct
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: access to healthcare, acute care hospitalilzations (ACHs), acute care providers, chronic disease patients, emergency room visits, healthcare continuum, home health industry, home healthcare, home healthcare nurses, hospital readmissions, hospitals, medication adherence, medication management, medication reminders, MedPAC, referrals, risk assessment
What we in healthcare have been watching for more than a year finally broke through into the mass media on Monday, October 1, the day Medicare began to issue penalties to hospitals with high readmission rates. Thick books, lengthy blogs and hours of conference presentations were compressed into a few paragraphs for public consumption. […]
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