Telehealth Monitor

Our goal is to help patients better manage their health and stay independent in their homes through the concept of telemanagement.

Telemanagement helps patients better understand their condition and better comply with their physician’s orders. It helps providers better understand their patients’ conditions. The links at the top of the page explain telemanagement, describe the key factors in telemanagement success, show how the well@home technology implements telemanagement, and showcase the success of health care providers and patients who use well@home.

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The Med-eMonitor™ System includes a medication adherence device that goes home with the patient linked, through a normal phone line, to a secure Internet site which captures and reports real-time patient data as the patient interacts with the device.   

The device has numerous capabilities including alerting the patient when it is time to take each of their medications.  It also reminds them how to properly take their medications.  Educational information about their medications, disease state and care plan are also delivered on the Med-eMonitor.  The data from the device is transmitted daily, via a normal phone line, to a secure Internet site.  This allows the care givers (Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, case managers and family members) to monitor medication and care plan adherence every day for each and every medication.  The System will also alert the care giver through an e-mail, text message, fax, or page if the data on the patient indicates poor adherence or declining health. 

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HomeCare Interactive TV™ goes far beyond existing telemonitoring tools available in the market today to deliver the full potential of remote patient management for home health agencies. It is the only telehealth tool available to patients that utilizes, familiar, already exist, home television and remote control to replace expensive, uncommon devices utilized in hometelehealth today.
HomeCare Interactive TV™ is not only used for collecting patient data and sending it to a care manager for monitoring, it provides on-demand access to interactive, media of health care information customized to individual patient’s needs.

HomeCare Interactive TV™ provides:

• Daily self assessment with available instant clinical intervention to prevent adverse events
• Medication management and regimen review
• Monitoring of vital signs and physiological data
• Messages and timely reminders
• Educational audio, video and printed material related to patient illness
• Access to personalized healthcare information through home TV
• Patient access to home health agency staff visit schedule
• Medication ordering and pharmacy monitoring tool
• Communication tool with health care providers or to seek instant help

Preliminary findings on how can HomeCare Interactive TV™ help your agency:

• 50% reduction in hospitalization for CHF, COPD, Diabetes and patients with high blood pressure
• 45% cost saving on home health visits
• 70% time saving on field- office- patient communication
• 30% general improvement in the P4P Medicare focused outcomes
• 300% return on investment

HomeCare Interactive TV™ 
is the only telehealth tool designed specifically for home health agencies

The architectural and functionality design of HomeCare Interactive TV™ was primarily built to satisfy the needs of home health agencies. Unlike any other home telehealth and disease management system, the information received or sent to patients from this TV system, is tracked and deposited directly in the agency’s main database and the patient’s electronic home health chart leaving no room for error or need for manual data transfer from one system to another. This information is instantly available for point-of-care, back office users, physicians and every other authorized person involved in the patient’s care. As a result several advantages are available for home health agencies when using the HomeCare Interactive™  complete system:

• Provides effortless compilation of data collected about patients whether taken by the nurse on the skilled visit or by the patient through their home TV.
• Instant alerting information to everyone involved in the care results in reducing hospitalization and ER visits and improves home care outcomes to a much higher level.
• The low cost of the tool allows agencies to utilize telehealth with the majority of their patients instead of the smallest number of patients as it is with the market available telehealth devices.
• By utilizing HomeCare Interactive™ System, the home health agency will ensure patients’ satisfaction, physicians’ appreciation and will have a competitive edge everyone strives for.

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Home Telehealth Limited is the premier UK provider of telehealth solutions and disease management services and on the cusp of something very exciting in Telehealth.

We are delivering on the Government’s Telecare agenda by providing ‘best of breed’ solutions to enable independent living initiatives and the management of people with long-term conditions.  These solutions are making a huge impact on people’s quality of life, improvement in education and management of their long-term condition whilst assisting NHS Trusts and Community Care providers by reducing hospital admissions.

We are partnered with one of the world’s leading telehealth providers of disease management services whose unique solution is completely software-based and 100% Internet based.  Its clinical content has the most developed nursing assessment clinical protocols than anyone in the industry.  All assessment, educational and teaching content is completely customisable and can be individualised for each patient.

Home Telehealth Limited is committed to delivering ‘value added’ Telecare services to commissioners of Telecare & Telehealth.

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During home visits your clinician relies on specific biophysical measurements to make critical patient assessments. What is important to measure? Temperature? Weight? BP? Pulse-ox? Spriometry? ECG? Glucose?

These measurements are real-time indicators of patient condition. They result in immediate treatment decisions.

Healthcom monitoring systems supply a steady flow of measurements, without your clinician traveling to the patient just to get them. Values are displayed on a secure website where they can be checked at any time; in fact, values over your defined limits cause an immediate alert (pager, fax, phone call, e-mail, etc.). Clinicians will still travel into homes for care delivery, but where they go, and (critically) when, become informed decisions.

The power of remote monitoring is simply this: Your clinicians know immediately when a patient is out of protocol and can choose the proper intervention … phone call, visit, contacting a family member.

TIME is your fixed resource.

Healthcom monitoring systems give you DATA on which to decide where to spend TIME. For better CARE; earlier INTERVENTIONS; better OUTCOMES.

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FONEMED® uses communications technology to provide individuals with round-the-clock, telephone or web-based access to medical advice, information, products, and services.  We provide outsourced nurse triage services from our North American call center.  We also supply qualified partners with the tools, technology, protocols and know-how to operate proprietary Medical Call Centers as either installed systems (for internal use only) or with concession agreements (for specified geographic locations).  

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Finally, modern diabetes care for the busy world we live in!

Diabetech brings together patients, doctors, technology and communities in complete diabetes care programs. We make daily, ongoing diabetes care tasks easier for patients, doctors and care givers. Our revolutionary Diabetes HouseCall care program provides a combination of in-office and remote visits, so you can get the help you need without spending hours doing it.

From our GlucoMON device to our HomeCheck A1c Kit, it’s all super easy to use. To make it easier to manage, every day. Doctors in our provider network finally get correct, timely patient data with accurate timestamps. And the world’s most accurate A1c, with +/- 0.1CV. Timely, quality data is the cornerstone for our reimbursable remote consultation program. Just ask our Diabetes HouseCall doctors and patients how easy it is and how they save time and money while enjoying higher level care than they could before.

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CGI Communications Services, a division of Meridian Holdings, Inc., with place of business located at 6080 Center Drive, Suite 640, Los Angeles, California, USA specializes in providing cost-effective turnkey support for implementation and operation of Telemedicine and other information technology services in health care and associated environments including providers at all levels, insurance carriers, pharmaceutical and clinical research.

CGI Communications Services, Inc., provides the following products and services to its clients: Telemedicine equipment, such as Telemedicine Carts, Medical Examination and Diagnostic Information Case, Dermatology scopes, ENT scopes, Vital Signs Unit, ECG, Digital Stethoscope, Ultrasound, Video and Robotic microscopes. 2. Network design, installation and maintenance of cost effective DVV solutions that offer additional telephone and data services. These extra services act as cost justifiers for the purchase and use of the equipment. 3. Data Archiving and Storage services that allow detailed image, session and patient information file creation, storage and high speed retrieval by means of high volume storage systems. 4. Critical Care Services: These services are designed and installed as per client’s requirements on a case-by-case basis for emergency services, mobile unit and disaster deployment.

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Care2Wear A/S

Care2Wear A/S was founded in 2004 and is an innovative and knowledge based company. Primary focus is telemedicine and related communication services for the healthcare sector.

Business Areas

Care2Wear A/S is providing mobile communication services as a virtual operator. Additionally the company is doing consultancy work and contract based research.

Vision

The overall vision for Care2Wear A/S is to develop and provide communication services and technology enabling continuous remote monitoring of health care data.

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Card Guard is a leading provider of innovative telemedicine technologies and telehealth services. Our remote patient monitoring solutions are designed for  high-risk and chronically ill patients, homecare and disease management programs, ordinary consumers of health products, and the wellness community.

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Beyond Speech Therapy, Inc. is the leading developer of telemedicine for speech language pathology. It provides rehab managers, speech language pathologists, patients and patients’ caregivers with a tool for success. Come with us beyond traditional speech therapy as we present the next step in the evolution of improving the delivery of speech therapy.

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The Avid Care Monitor is small and lightweight–about the size of two paperback books stacked together. Powered by an AC adapter, it can also operate up to 48 hours on its internal rechargeable batteries. This permits it to be moved from room to room, taken to work, or even carried on vacation. The only other connection required is a standard phone connection.

The Monitor is currently approved for use in testing blood pressure, pulse-oximetry, and weight.

The four-button interface is easy to use. When it is time for a test, the Monitor beeps to alert the patient. Step-by-step instructions are shown on a backlit LCD screen to lead the patient through the procedure. After the test is over an internal modem transmits the results to the AvidCare Telemanagement center–a process that takes only about a minute.

All the internal modules, like the pulse-oximeter and the blood-pressure unit, are high-quality clinical grade devices for unparalleled accuracy.

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PrepPoint® injection training and administration services broaden acceptance and improve adherence for infused and injectable products by sending skilled nurses into the patient’s home to administer the product or to provide one-on-one training on how to self-administer the drug. At the request of the patient’s physician or case manager, NovoLogix acts as an independent program manager, employing the latest technology and data systems to coordinate the visit, conduct provider training, and handle program reporting. PrepPoint results demonstrate that:

Additional patient education and training improves adherence and persistency

Convenient in-home training enhances patient learning and, ultimately, can help improve treatment outcomes

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Acadian Telehealth Monitoring: Our mission is “To partner with home healthcare agencies and case management agencies throughout the U.S. and provide cost-effective solutions in telehealth equipment rentals and professional monitoring services to their patients, with the intention of helping patients heal at home through daily diagnostic intervention and providing our nation with affordable healthcare management.”

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This case study discusses how Montana is using Polycom Solutions to bridge the gap in healthcare delivery and communications that plagues the largely rural and sparsely populated State of Montana.

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You’re invited to redefine healthcare.

Think of the goods and services you can buy online right now—banking services, airline tickets, books, games, clothing you name it. You can locate, research and purchase almost anything over the Internet. The Internet has helped give consumers instant gratification and has made us an on-demand society.

Traditional healthcare remains the opposite of on-demand. You wait for an appointment. Wait in traffic to get to your appointment. Wait for the doctor. Wait for your prescription. And so on.

Thanks to telemedicine the waiting is over and more and more consumers are joining the revolution. With SwiftMD, the convenience and ease of access now applies to healthcare:

You can talk to a doctor via the Web or phone. You can videoconference with a physician via your computer webcam. Soon you’ll be able to send a photo of an injury or rash right from your phone. No longer must you drive across town or wait in a crowded ER to get the care you need.

Your care is tracked with a sophisticated electronic medical record that lets you view your physician’s notes, follow your treatment history and track your prescriptions. You can share this record with your family doctor or specialists. And it’s available anytime.

You can refill prescriptions, access extensive health information, and much more.

Most important, your information is strictly confidential. Electronic medical records reside on a separate, secure server accessible only to your SwiftMD doctors. Storage of your information complies fully with all HIPAA regulations and patient privacy laws.

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Ericsson has joined the United Nations Office for Partnerships’ mHealth project, which uses telecommunications to bring mobile health applications and telemedicine to rural Africa.

“This initiative reflects Ericsson’s ongoing commitment to harnessing our technical leadership to develop sustainable business models that bridge the digital and health divides,” said Carl-Henric Svanberg, Ericsson’s president and CEO.

“Telecommunications play a vital role in facilitating access to health services, which help end the cycle of poverty and empower communities to improve their own social and economic situations,” he added.

Though other telecommunications companies are already partners in the U.N. project, Ericsson said it will use its expertise to spearhead the project’s technology stream and explore the use of mobile communications to deliver telemedicine to rural communities.

via Ericsson United Nations telemedicine project – Network World.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is joining forces with the United Nations Office for Partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa. As a founding member of the UN’s Digital Health Initiative, Ericsson is taking another step in its ongoing commitment to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to reduce global extreme poverty.

The Digital Health Initiative (DHI) is a public/private partnership that works to create innovative models for the development and delivery of global health to millions in developing countries. This will be critical to help achieve those Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are related to health, which specifically address the need to tackle diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious and communicable diseases, reduce child mortality, and improve maternal health. The MDG named “Develop a global partnership for development” also points out the vital role that the private sector can play, especially in terms of information and communication technology, in meeting the other goals.

Mobile communications have proved to make a positive difference to people in developing countries, enabling cost-effective access to basic services, such as health, particularly in rural areas where there is little or no infrastructure.

A key goal of the DHI is to confront the diseases of poverty more efficiently and effectively. Engaging the private sector is seen as critical to reaching this goal. Mobile communications in particular can empower individuals, communities, health workers and health institutions to streamline knowledge capture, collection and communication in the field of health.

As the leading telecom provider, Ericsson will use its expertise to spearhead the initiative’s technology stream, and will explore the use of mobile communications to deliver telemedicine to rural communities, to help to improve access to and delivery of emergency and general health services, assist with disease surveillance and control, enhance the collection of basic health data such as birth and death registration, and deliver mobile learning to health workers in remote areas.  Ericsson’s experience in India and Bangladesh shows that even people with an average income of USD 1.25 per day can have access to medical care with the help of mobile connectivity.

Carl-Henric Svanberg, Ericsson President and Chief Executive Officer, says: “Telecommunications play a vital role in facilitating access to health services, which help end the cycle of poverty and empower communities to improve their own social and economic situations. This initiative reflects Ericsson’s ongoing commitment to harnessing our technical leadership to develop sustainable business models that bridge the digital, and health, divides.”

Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships, says: “We believe the DHI will form the basis of a strategic framework for new model partnerships across the ICT, pharmaceutical and health-technology sectors with a view to concrete deliverables in the accelerated delivery of the health-related MDGs. In this regard, the United Nations sees Ericsson as a core strategic partner in the emerging field of digital health for development.”

Joining the DHI builds on Ericsson’s global experience from the Gramjyoti project, which brought a range of services including telemedicine, m-learning and m-governance to rural communities in India, as well as the Alokito Bangladesh project, which brought high-speed, internet-enabled mobile learning and healthcare to the region of the capital, Dhaka. 

In Africa, Ericsson is committed to bringing mobile connectivity to over half a million people in the Millennium Village sites in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Malawi and Ethiopia. Health, in addition to agriculture, education and infrastructure, is one of the key areas of this initiative, and together with The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Ericsson is piloting the use of health-related applications and telemedicine in the villages. The Millennium Villages provide an excellent basis from which to understand the needs of the villagers, and in turn pilot new innovative technological solutions in cooperation with the national health ministries and project staff. 

As the technology partner, Ericsson’s role is to develop and rollout the solutions. Through innovative partnerships like the Millennium Villages, and the DHI, Ericsson hopes to demonstrate the potential of mobile communications in the area of global health. 

Other founding members of the Digital Health Initiative include: Commonwealth Business Council, Pfizer, the Global Business Council for AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the African Business Round Table. 

via Ericsson joins new UN initiative to bring digital-health benefits to Africa – Press Release.

September 24, 2008 – Chalfont St. Giles, UK and New York, New York USA  – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced today that it has entered into a distribution and technology collaboration agreement with Living Independently Group, Inc. a leading provider of telecare and passive monitoring systems used to assist in the care of seniors.  GE Healthcare will distribute and co-market Living Independently’s QuietCare® products globally.  As part of the agreement, the companies will utilize GE’s Global Research Center and its advanced work in clinical parameters and monitoring algorithms to drive innovation in the field of remote patient monitoring and diagnostics.  GE Healthcare will also take a minority ownership stake in Living Independently.  Financial terms were not disclosed.

Living Independently’s QuietCare is a behavioral remote patient monitoring system that uses wireless sensors to non-intrusively track the daily patterns of seniors’ activities.  QuietCare alerts caregivers to behavioral changes that may signal potential health issues or emergency situations.  QuietCare is used in leading assisted living facilities, senior communities, and private homes.  GE Healthcare’s Clinical Systems business is a world-class provider of advanced technologies for patient monitoring.  The strategic fit between the two businesses combined with expanded capabilities in product development and marketing will offer substantial long-term customer benefits.

Omar Ishrak, President and CEO of GE Healthcare’s Clinical Systems business commented, “This is consistent with GE’s strategy to invest in high growth businesses with global potential.  Demographic changes such as the growing aging population present enormous healthcare challenges in the care of seniors and the management of chronic disease.  The technologies developed by Living Independently are ideally placed to help meet these challenges.  They are also a great fit with our vision of helping people to live longer, healthier and higher quality lives.  We see enormous potential in senior healthcare monitoring, and the combined talent of the two companies offers the potential to accelerate the development of the business.”

Commenting on the agreement, John L. Lakian, Chairman and CEO, Living Independently Group, Inc. said, “This is a very exciting development in the future of home healthcare.  Leveraging the resources of GE Healthcare will allow us to significantly accelerate the evolution and capabilities of our QuietCare system and new applications for remote patient monitoring.  The Living Independently management team looks forward to working with GE Healthcare to realize the potential of this great business.”

About Living Independently Group, Inc. and QuietCare

New York-based Living Independently Group, Inc. is the creator of QuietCare, a revolutionary passive monitoring system that uses wireless sensors to unobtrusively track the daily patterns of seniors’ home activities, 24/7.  QuietCare alerts the caregiver to atypical activity patterns and behavioral changes that may signal potential health issues or emergency situations. QuietCare is used in leading assisted living centers, senior communities, and private homes nationwide and in the United Kingdom.  Additional information is available at www.quietcaresystems.com.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare’s broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new “early health” model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at  www.gehealthcare.com.

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t+ Medical offers innovative disease management and remote monitoring solutions that empower healthcare professionals and chronic disease patients, to efficiently and effectively improve the financial, social and clinical outcomes associated with the management of chronic disease.

As the leading supplier of mobile phone disease management solutions for sufferers of chronic diseases in the UK, t+ Medical solutions have been clinically validated to increase testing compliance and monitoring, leading to better patient short-term and long-term outcomes.

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Docobo Ltd is a UK healthcare solutions provider, involved in the management and prevention of Long Term Conditions (LTC, formally known as chronic diseases).

Docobo Ltd, is a UK company accredited to EN13485. established in 2001 from a consortium of clinicians and technologists. Docobo has been in the forefront of development of systems for the management of patients with Long Term Conditions in their own homes. A range of products and services are provided including the doc@HOME®service for the management of chronic disease and the HealthHUB™ for collecting physiological, quality of life and life style data; data transfer and receipt of messages permit effective and efficient management of patients in their own homes

The company has developed a remote monitoring service for LTC’s, called doc@HOME®, and is developing a focused range of related services and products to expand its portfolio. This Telehealth service offers care providers with an integrated low cost solution for the collection, management and analysis of essential patient related data, and permits efficient interaction between clinicians and patients at home.

TeleHealth has the ability to reduce the burden to healthcare providers related to LTC management by the provision of at-home monitoring and increasingly intelligent automated management of the condition.

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Stimulus Package) represents a significant opportunity for the continued expansion of Telemedicine throughout the United States.

In support of these efforts, AMD’s Program Design Group is prepared to lend our expertise in the following areas;

• Medical Device identification and selection by specialty

• Telemedicine Encounter Management Solutions and EMR Integration

• Connectivity Systems and Network Architecture

• Various Grant and Loan program navigation

• The Application process

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TeleAtrics™, is a unique telemedicine system — conceived and designed by a team of health care professionals — that connects doctors, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team with their patients wherever they may be – at childcare centers, schools, workplaces, camps, teen recreational facilities, prisons, shopping centers and more.

Using an Internet-based system that supports high quality videoconferencing, digital medical cameras, digital stethoscopes, and other diagnostic equipment; medical evaluations for a broad range of problems can be completed and the implications discussed face-to-face, while health care providers and patients remain many miles apart.

TeleAtrics Connect ™ – Healthcare’s next step in comprehensive telemedicine systems and support services.

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BodyMedia’s products are based on a comprehensive technology platform that’s designed to help people manage a healthy lifestyle – from wearable monitors to online management tools.

We offer solutions for consumers, clinicians, health clubs and researchers, and for those interested in losing weight, studying populations over time, training for a marathon, or tracking sleep patterns. If you want to Know Your Body, we can help you Change Your Life.

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Innovative New Android-based Application Makes Personal Health Data

Accessible for Google Health Users Any Time, Anywhere

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Anvita(TM) Health, formerly known as SafeMed, an integrated partner of Google Health(TM) announced the release of a new mobile viewer for Google Health that is built on the Android platform. The new Anvita Mobile Viewer will be demonstrated publicly for the first time today during a presentation at the Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR+) conference.

“The new Mobile Viewer from Anvita is a great example of how companies can innovate using Google’s open platforms,” said Sameer Samat, Director of Product Management, Google Health. “We are pleased to see one of our trusted partners use Android to help make personal health data more available to consumers. We think giving users options for how they access their health data is paramount to consumer-directed care. Anvita has created the first of many mobile health applications using Google Health.”

The Anvita Mobile Viewer enables users of Google Health to view their Google Health profile data from Android-powered devices, which today only include the T-Mobile G1. This allows for on-demand and real-time view of their medical records anytime and anywhere and provides for more flexibility when visiting physicians, pharmacists, and other care providers. The Anvita Mobile Viewer is a free, downloadable application built for the Android platform.

“We see Google Health as a vital tool in allowing consumers to take a more active role in their own health care and the care of their families,” said Ahmed Ghouri, M.D., co-founder and chief medical officer of Anvita Health. “The Anvita Mobile Viewer builds a bridge between the home and the doctor’s office, and allows Google Health users to realize the full worth of their PHR data by taking it to where critical medical decisions are made.”

Anvita Health is a pioneer in health care analytics. Its analytics engine powers the real-time personalized health feedback within Google Health, alerting users to important data such as potentially harmful drug interactions.

Ghouri offered the example of a person caring for his or her aging parent. “The creation and maintenance of a Google Health PHR for elderly parents, whose care regimens can be complex and rapidly changing, helps improve the quality of care by having easy and instant access to vital information at the point of care,” said Ghouri.

Users can download the Anvita Mobile Viewer for Google Health through Android Market. The Anvita Mobile Viewer for Google Health will be available on other hand sets in the future, including the iPhone.

The application can be also be downloaded by visiting the download page on Anvita Health’s website at www.anvitahealth.com. After opening the Anvita Mobile Viewer application and logging in to their secure Google Health account, users can then access their most up-to-date Google Health profile information, including height, weight and age, current prescriptions, any existing health conditions, previous procedures, known allergies and more.

About Anvita Health: Founded by physicians in 2000, Anvita Health provides innovative health care analytics to its customers who, in aggregate, manage more than 50 million lives. Anvita Health’s analysis engine and custom analytics solutions are used by point-of-care information technology systems, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, disease management companies, personal health record providers, and ambulatory care providers. Anvita Health is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Anvita is a trademark of Anvita Inc. Google Health is a trademark of Google Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), in partnership with Continua Health Alliance, have collaborated on a system designed to allow patients to stream data from medical devices directly to Google Health or to other online personal health record services.

IBM said the system will help to ensure that patient’s health records are up to date at all times.

“By harnessing the rapidly growing use of remote patient monitoring across every part of the health care services industry, our new IBM solution greatly increases the real-time value of [personal health records] for consumers everywhere,” said Dan Pelino, general manager for IBM’s Healthcare & Life Sciences unit, in a statement Wednesday.

Google Health, launched last year, allows users to store, manage, and share their health records in a secure, online environment. Continua helps define guidelines and standards for e-health records.

IBM envisions multiple uses for the service, which is based partly on open source software. For instance, a busy professional could use the technology to keep tabs on the health of an aging parent who lives alone. The system could also allow physicians to remotely monitor, in almost real-time, the blood sugar levels of diabetic patients.

via IBM, Google Team Up On Health Records — InformationWeek.

PORTLAND, OR – VivoMetrics, a remote patient monitoring systems provider based in Ventura, Calif., is partnering with the Continua Health Alliance, a non-profit, open industry coalition of healthcare and technology companies, to promote the use of telehealth.

As a member of the coalition, VivoMetrics will focus on developing a next-generation remote patient monitoring system (RPM) through the use of its proprietary LifeShirt system. LifeShirt enables healthcare professionals and researchers to collect laboratory-quality physiological data from patients.

VivoMetrics will be using its RPM system to address the needs of a population that is growing older and experiencing a greater rate of chronic disease, said officials.

via Industry News | Healthcare IT News.

PtCT, MEDITECH’s Home Care solution, is the leading provider of home care, hospice, and telehealth software. We are united in our mission to provide physicians, nurses, and other home care clinicians with the tools they need to orchestrate and deliver patient care in a safe, effective, secure, and efficient manner across the health care continuum. Our process-driven, automated software is unlike any other in the home care landscape, and is fully integrated to optimize the financial and business potential of home health and hospice care enterprises. Together, PtCT and MEDITECH are bringing home care into a new era through our innovative technologies.

via Patient Care Technologies: Comprehensive Integrated Home Care, Hospice and Telehealth Software.

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Aerotel Medical Systems for Leveraging the Growth Potential of the Remote Patient Monitoring Market with Technically Advanced, Affordable Products

London, UK – 5th June 2007 – Based on its recent analysis of the European remote patient monitoring market; Frost & Sullivan has recognized Aerotel Medical Systems with the 2007 European Innovation and Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award for developing a comprehensive portfolio of technologically innovative, user-friendly and affordable products as well as structuring and implementing an effective marketing strategy.

“This award commends Aerotel for identifying the increasing importance of monitoring elderly patients for various chronic conditions such as heart failures, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders and developing products targeted at meeting these needs,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Hema Varshika. “Aerotel’s products successfully combine state-of-the-art technology with simplicity and ease-of-use and have been designed keeping in mind the physical limitations of the elderly and the incapacities of post-operative patients.”

For instance, Aerotel’s Heartline ECG Monitoring products for the telecardiology segment are primarily used by and patients recovering from cardiac surgery and are very useful as they allow monitoring of patients without requiring them to stay in hospital for long periods of time. The values measured are transmitted to an ECG receiving station where they are stored in the patient’s record and viewed by healthcare staff.

In the field of home care, Aerotel has recently introduced advanced solutions such as the Tele-, Tele-Modem and Connect–LAN which are multi-parameter acquisition devices that acquire various medical parameters such as blood glucose level, ECG, and Respiratory Peak flow and then transmit these values to a remote receiving station. A unique aspect of these devices is that their features can be enhanced simply by adding on more devices to the basic system, which ultimately delivers more value to patients and improves their quality of life.

Strongly committed to maintaining stringent quality standards, Aerotel ensures that the proprietary technology it uses in its telecardiology range of products and software meets these criteria. It also uses automation to assemble its electronic circuitry, which goes a long way in ensuring superior product quality. Furthermore, the compatibility of its devices with both wireless and wired technology have ensured greater end-user acceptance.

Aerotel understands that continuous innovation is critical to success and constantly reviews products to improve technology and incorporate changes that could enhance patients’ quality of life. This has resulted in revolutionary products such as HeartOneTM for children, (infants) which is a mobile trans-telephonic ECG. Used by a new service specially designed for children that transmit the ECG to the monitoring center and from there to the specialist’s office.
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As a key part of its growth strategy, Aerotel recognizes the importance of mergers and acquisitions and the advantages of collaborating with other key market participants. Its partnership with Telbios, a leading telemedicine service provider in Italy, has not only complemented its own services but also strengthened its position in Europe. Additionally, Aerotel’s recent acquisition of the Tadiran LifeCare Division from the parent company, Tadiran Spectralink, is expected to result in an enhanced product portfolio combining the most innovative solutions with sophisticated technology.

“Thus, Frost & Sullivan is pleased to present the 2007 European Innovation and Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award to Aerotel Medical Systems in recognition of its complete range of technology-driven products and high degree of innovation, which have made it a leading vendor in the field of remote patient monitoring,” says Ms.Varshika. “Committed to providing technologically advanced yet cost-effective products, Aerotel caters to the requirements of elderly patients for uncomplicated, user-friendly monitoring devices that enable them to have a better quality of life.”

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About Aerotel Medical Systems

Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leader in cost-effective, high quality, user-friendly, medical diagnostic systems and devices for home care, eHealth and telemedicine. The company provides a complete disease management package; including transtelephonic devices designed for a variety of remote diagnostic, emergency services and monitoring applications, hardware and software platforms for remote monitoring call centers, as well as phone and web-based monitoring software. Aerotel enables patients to conduct tests comfortably while leading normal, mobile lives. Aerotel has a client base in over 40 countries around the globe. For further information please visit Aerotel Medical Systems website at: www.aerotel.com.

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Aerotel Medical Systems for Leveraging the Growth Potential of the Remote Patient Monitoring Market with Technically Advanced, Affordable Products.