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Video:Telemedicine on the Frontier
As rural providers work to expand access to care to far-flung patients, telemedicine is an increasingly essential component of those efforts. In this exclusive video interview, the leadership team at Clearwater Valley Hospital in Idaho, talk to H&HN senior editor Suzanna Hoppszallern about building telemedicine coalitions with other community providers to better serve patients.
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Interview:Ed Lowell Talks Mobility, Reliability Key to Future of Hospital Patient Care
Guest interview post from our media partners, iHT2'S blog: Ed Lowell, Director of Technology Infrastructure at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, participated in the panel discussion, “Patient Management Without Walls: Enabling mHealth & Telemedicine,” at IHT2’s Health IT Summit in San Francisco, March 27-28th.
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Video:Kian Saneii, CEO of Independa, Inc. at HIMSS12
HIT Consultant spoke with Kian Saneii, CEO of Independa, Inc. during this year's HIMSS12 where he talks about how Independa's technology enabled independent living solutions is taking healthcare outside of the four walls of hospitals and extending it to the home for continuity of care. Kian is also featured in this month's issue of Entrepreneur magazine sharing his story of how he was inspired to start Independa Inc. after watching his parents, both in their 70's, helped managed the care of
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Video:Is Technology Changing the Doctor-Patient Relationship?
With preventable medical conditions such as obesity continuing to grow so does the need for patient involved healthcare. The doctor-patient relationship is critically important to bridging the gap between passive patients and informed medical consumers. Innovative technologies are the enabling factor for this, but are they succeeding — and how long will it be before we start seeing significant changes? The following video explores this question with moderator, Zachary Bujnoch, Senior Industry
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Independa Unveils New Home Health Monitoring Option
Independa today announced plans during the 2012 International CES for Health Measures – a platform combining conventional telephony with existing Independa cloud-based services to improve remote care for the elderly. Simple, affordable Health Measures doesn’t require cellular coverage, broadband service or wireless devices in the home, making it ideal for care recipients who live in rural areas with poor cellular coverage, have limited funds to invest in wireless health devices, or
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Video Case Study: How Telehealth Can Eliminate Barriers to Care
The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers to care. In this project, specially trained pharmacists provided medication therapy management services to nearly 100 older Cambodian-Americans. Results Pharmacists identified 604 potentially harmful medication-related problems (MRPs).
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