Independa announced it closed a Series A Preferred Stock financing at $5 million to expand sales, research and development, and distribution of its technology to provide independent living solutions. The funding comes from City Hill Ventures, a previous investor, and strategic partner LG Electronics USA, with participation by additional investors. The respective amounts of investment from […]
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A California company announced Thursday that it is expanding its home care services with a new technological innovation that might be the start of a larger trend in home health services. VideoCare is Homecare California’s touch-screen system that offers two-way video connection between care recipients and their families, progressional caregivers and friends. It is the […]
A major Indiana hospital system recently employed a remote patient monitoring program developed by Care Innovations, a joint venture between Intel and GE, in a study that ultimately achieved a 75% reduction in hospital admissions compared to the control group. St. Vincent, a member of Ascension health, the nation’s largest not-for-profit Catholic Healthcare System, was […]
Aging demographics in the U.S. are indicative of a “megatrend” seen throughout the world, reports CNBC, and governments across the globe are starting to look for ways to provide efficient and cost-effective long-term care for seniors. Long-term care encompasses skilled nursing, assisted living, and home health care, the article notes, but regardless of setting, it’s […]
Collecting in-home healthcare data is the “missing link” to comprehensive care systems looking to facilitate effective post-acute care settings for recently discharged hospital patients, according to the founder of a system that generates comprehensive, real-time behavioral and critical data from the homes of seniors and others with chronic conditions. Following a hospitalization, there are several […]
Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare and Sunrise, Fla.-based MDLIVE have forged a partnership that will deliver secure, real-time medical consultations to patients with an established regional network of physicians who will be accessible through telephone and online video throughout the state of Virginia, the companies recently announced. Sentara Healthcare will have an equity stake in the […]
Sentara Home Care recipients in Virginia will gain access to 24/7, on-demand virtual health care consultations beginning in October, Sentara and its partnering company, MDLIVE announced last week. The adoption of MDLIVE’s telehealth platform is expected to increase Sentara’s patient capacity in time for more than 1 million Virginia residents currently uninsured to gain health […]
A nationwide collaboration between insurer Humana and Intel-GE Care Innovations will soon produce data and results on telehealth and its effectiveness based on a 34-state project launched last January involving members who used a home-based telehealth device to manage their conditions, reports Healthcare IT News. St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Humana Cares, a division of the national […]
Baby boomers are turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 a day and will continue to do so for about the next two decades, and while most of them have a positive outlook on their retirement according to a new survey conducted by The National Council on Aging, United Health Care and USA Today, that […]
Remote monitoring of home care patients is set to become more “plug and play” as Independa, remote health monitoring provider, and Ideal Life, medical monitoring device supplier, collaborate on a wireless monitoring and data cloud storage program. Ideal Life’s monitoring devices including scales, glucometers, pulse oximeters, and blood pressure cuffs will be equipped with Independa’s […]
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