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Daily FYI June 04, 2009 LifeWatch and Verizon Wireless to Expand Healthcare Telemedicine Solutions Source: PRNewswire LifeWatch Services, Inc., the leading provider of wireless telemedicine services in the United States, today announced that it has reached an exclusive agreement with Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless service provider. Under this agreement, Verizon Wireless will be the preferred network for LifeWatch's successful remote monitoring service for cardiac patients.
How Payers of Health Care Are Using Telemedicine
With billions of dollars earmarked for telemedicine in the stimulus package, health care payers are taking a look at how technology is being used to manage health care. Based in Bozeman, Montana, where Justin now lives, the company is part of a growing field of telemedicine, which refers to any health care delivered to patients using information technology. Not all telemedicine services provide remote access to doctors like SwiftMD does. Some simply use software to help patients monitor their illnesses. What separates telemedicine from health information Web sites is software that provides personalized feedback on a patient’s health. The goal is to use technology to provide more personalized, cost-efficient health care.
New Telehealth Pilot Project to Evaluate Technology Solutions for U.S. Market Source: PRNewswire Home for Life Solutions(TM) and Tunstall Healthcare A/S announce a joint effort to design and implement the "Telehealth Pilot Project." The one-year Pilot Project will evaluate the use of wireless telehealth services based on Tunstall technology and products in the retirement community market and beyond, including the capacity, growth opportunities and patient satisfaction of the telehealth system. "The goal of the Telehealth Pilot Project is to verify that wireless telehealth technology is cost effective, easy to use and non-threatening to participants. We hope the telehealth system utilizing daily monitoring and personable support from health care professionals will encourage patients to take charge of their health conditions and better manage their medical needs," said Katie Boyer, LMSW, Home For Life Solutions Director of Marketing and Business Development.
TeleHealth Services Chosen By HCA To Install Interactive Patient Education System In Timpanogos Regional Hospital Source: Medical News Today TeleHealth Services, the nation's leading provider of healthcare grade televisions and on-demand patient and staff interactive education solutions, has announced the implementation of its TIGR on-demand video education and entertainment system into Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah.
KoolDocs.com, Leading Provider of Online Doctor Consultations, Launches New Website Source: PR Web KoolDocs.com, the web's leading resource for online medical consultations, diagnoses, prescriptions, and doctors' excuses for work and school, launched a brand new website that focuses on its innovative online doctor consultation and prescription services, also known as telemedicine. The site, KoolDocs.com, is designed to provide patients a convenient, economical, and quality solution to simple medical problems that are treatable with the help of an online doctor; in this case, a KoolDoc online doctor.
Telemedicine aids diabetes care Source: Healthcare Republic School-based e-consultations can improve disease control and quality of life for children with diabetes, research suggests. Researchers from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, studied 41 children, aged five to 14, with type-1 diabetes. All participants received standard outpatient care and, in addition, 23 were randomised to a telemedicine intervention programme.
IDEAL LIFE® and Bayada Nurses Reduce Hospitalizations by 40-60 Percent for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and Hypertension Source: Business Wire Wireless Telehealth Products Contribute to Major Cost-Savings and Optimal Patient Care IDEAL LIFE, INC. and home care agency Bayada Nurses Inc. announced today that hospitalizations for patients using IDEAL LIFE’s remote health management products for CHF and hypertension have decreased 40 to 60 percent since the program began in September 2007. The clinical results were so favorable that Bayada Nurses, one of the nation’s largest home health providers, has expanded use of the IDEAL LIFE system across offices in Pennsylvania, Arizona and New Jersey. |
