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NewsSenior service network studies telehealth effectiveness
Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society has announced it will join three vendors of telehealth solutions--WellAWARE Systems, Philips Lifeline and Honeywell HomMed--to offer technologies designed Read more...
RAND pushes remote care to ease health system demand
Like so many others who follow healthcare, researchers at RAND believe home-based technology, such as remote monitoring devices and telemedicine, have great potential to rein in healthcare costs and Read more...
Cleveland Clinic doc calls high-tech home care 'inevitable'
Welcome to the age of high-tech house calls, courtesy of wireless technology. "In my Cleveland Clinic practice, I work in my patients' homes, using a cellular broadband connection to the same Read more...
Leaders in San Diego m-health community discuss wireless innovation, roadblocks
Readers of FierceMobileHealthcare understand how wireless and mobile technologies have the potential to revolutionize healthcare. Now, the wider business community is starting to figure that out. "I Read more...
Continua Health Alliance to offer library of interoperable connectivity code for smartphones
The Continua Health Alliance is building a library of source code to connect interoperable personal health devices and health records via smartphones, Healthcare IT News reports. This mobile Continua Read more...
UK project to develop wireless sensors for 'smart' homes for elderly
Money just continues to flow into R&D for home health monitoring technologies. A team at the University of Portsmouth, England, has received a grant of 128,000 pounds ($184,000) to develop Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: GE invests in home-health technology research
GE Healthcare is giving $3 million to an Irish research institution to help develop new technologies to facilitate independent living in aging populations. In the wake of GE's acquisition of Living Read more...
Remote home monitoring makes nurses more efficient
Know what a jaffle iron is? We didn't either. It's the Aussie name for what we might call a sandwich press. What does that have to do with mobile healthcare? Nothing at all, except that's how one Read more...
Study: Remote health monitoring growing, but restrained by payment policies
Remote health management represents just 1.4 percent of the market for home health monitoring in the U.S., but it's expected to double from $1.8 billion in 2007 to $3.6 billion in 2012, representing Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: British government pledges millions for home telehealth
The government of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged 130 million pounds ($216 million) to provide home telehealth care and home adaptations to help an estimated 130,000 people live Read more...
| Press ReleasesnSpire Health Reports Favorable First Half ResultsLONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nSpire Health, LLC, a leading provider of respiratory diagnostic devices and clinical trial services, today announced that first half earnings before interest and Read more >> New ActiveCare Technology Enables Seniors to Remain IndependentActiveHome Monitoring System Ready To MarketSALT LAKE CITY, June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ActiveCare, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ACAR) a leader in senior care technology, today announced the Read more >> Pathways Hospice’s Ellen Brown Receives Physician of the Year AwardCAHSAH Honors Hospice and Home Health Medical Director SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dr. Ellen Brown, medical director at Pathways Home Health & Hospice, received the 2011 Physician of the Read more >> AOD Software Achieved HIPAA 5010 Certification Through EdifecsFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AOD Software recently achieved certification for the 837I EDI Health Care Institutional Claim file in the new HIPAA 5010 format through the Edifecs5010+ Read more >> Golden Living Secures $1.5 Billion Term LoanFORT SMITH, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Golden Living announced today that it has closed on a $1.5 billion term loan and a $75 million cash flow revolver. The company used these proceeds to pay down all Read more >> |
