Excellent and wide-ranging good news story by Connie Williams, the Democratic chair of the Senate Communications and Technology Committee, no less. Published by the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Cardiologists at the University of Mississippi Medical Center are among the first to use radio frequency technology to monitor the cardiovascular status of heart failure patients from their homes. Full story on AScribe.
Announcement about Cardiophonics Telemedicine’s new mobile phone-based product ‘Care From Anywhere’
Article about Lifetime Care’s use of Honeywell’s HomMed technologies. (Lifetime Care is a home health agency in Rochester, New York is a $5 billion not-for-profit health insurer that finances and delivers health care to more than 2 million people.)
The Pennsylvania-based Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign 2007 seeks to unite the home care community under the shared vision of reducing avoidable hospitalizations to improve patient quality of care. It is running a 12-month multi-disciplinary approach to quality improvement that includes key home health, hospital, and physician stakeholders. The campaign will provide home care agencies with free monthly best practice intervention packages include educational tools and resources, guidelines, success stories and best practice education.
It identifies that best practice interventions to reduce avoidable hospitalizations are like pieces of a puzzle, including the following:
• Implementing risk assessments
• Emergency care plans
• Fall prevention programs
• Front-loading visits
• Telehealth
• Teletriage
• Improving medication management
• Physician communication