Telehealth

Also known as telemedicine, this area of care helps connect doctors and patients remotely, without requiring in-person visits. This virtual care strategy is beneficial for managing chronic conditions, delivering lab test or diagnostic imaging results, post-surgical follow-ups, assessing skin conditions, online counseling and many other healthcare services. It also can improve care, care access and outcomes for patients.

GE, Intel launch new telehealth joint venture

GE Healthcare and Intel have launched a joint venture to create a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living, slated to be operational by the end of 2010.

Center for Tech and Aging grants $500,000 to telehealth projects

The Center for Technology and Aging will provide grants to five healthcare organizations to test the efficacy and quality of remote home monitoring to improve chronic disease management and post-acute care.

Midwest nonprofit wins $8.15M telehealth grant

Senior housing nonprofit Good Samaritan Society has received more than $8.15 million in grant funding over three years from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to deliver sensor technology and telehealth services to help rural seniors age in place.

Philips, Project HOPE to offer telehealth in N.M.

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed with Project Hope, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization, to place telemonitoring devices in select homes in rural areas of New Mexico.

Telehealth Gets Connected

Telehealth may not be a cure-all for what ails U.S. healthcare, but this is an area where health IT is already answering the call for increased access and lower-cost care delivery, powered by federal money and technology initiatives, and by improvements in wireless networks, data compression and remote patient monitoring.

Medical Care Technologies to release telehealth suite for heart failure

Medical Care Technologies has completed the development of its Tele-Health Suite 6.17, a remote monitoring system for patients with congestive heart failure.

Cisco sponsors California telehealth project

The California Telemedicine Pilot Project, sponsored by Cisco with the assistance of health organization Molina Healthcare, two community health centers in San Diego and the state of California, will connect more than 15 locations and provide health and wellness services to underserved communities throughout the state.

Danish telehealth pilots to go national

Denmark has rolled-out two telehealth pilot programs it now intends to implement on a nationwide basis over the next three years.

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