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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
By Audrey Kinsella A patient we will call “Miss Devyn” was referred to home health services following knee replacement surgery. A case manager at Indian River Home Care, which serves Indian River County, Florida, assigned Devyn a remote telehealth monitor. Following company policy, the case manager set up the device to track her pain and […]
