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NewsTelehealth empowers seniors to avoid hospital visits
Technology that connects seniors with chronic diseases to a nurse who monitors and assesses vital signs from a remote location could lighten demand for emergency room visits and prevent hospital 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...
Most people with chronic disease want remote monitoring
More than three-fifths of Americans living with at least one chronic disease believe that a home medical device to manage their conditions could improve their health, according to a survey 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...
U.S. patient monitoring market to rise above $4B by 2017
With home telehealth on the verge of a boom and more hospitals switching to wireless telemetry, the U.S. market for patient monitoring will hit $4 billion by 2017, a new report from iData Research Read more...
UK health officials push home monitoring
British health officials are all but banking on mobile and wireless technologies for patient self-monitoring as part of a 20-billion-pound ($31.6 billion) cost-savings plan for the National Health Read more...
Patients don't want to pay for remote health monitoring
Old habits--and mindsets--die hard. The attitude of American consumers toward remote health monitoring devices is the same as it is for all kinds of other healthcare products and services: I want it, Read more...
Video 'telecaregivers' keep seniors in their homes longer
Cell phones are ubiquitous. Plenty of American homes have high-speed Internet and wireless networks. And the population is aging. Take those factors together and it's no surprise that home patient Read more...
Study: Remote monitoring cuts hospitalization, mortality for heart failure
The expected boom in remote monitoring has been somewhat restrained by the dearth of scientific studies proving that such technologies can save lives and money. Slowly, though, the body of evidence Read more...
GE, Intel to combine home-health operations in a new joint venture
General Electric and Intel are creating a 50/50 joint venture to develop and market home-based healthcare technologies, the two companies announced Monday. The yet-unnamed venture will combine the Read more...
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