One of the nation’s largest home health and hospice providers is looking ahead to some new beginnings in 2016. Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) has sold its corporate headquarters building on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for $20 million. The buyer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, is also based in Baton Rouge. Meanwhile, Amedisys […]
Intel-GE Care Innovations
Home health care providers may glean valuable insights from a new telehealth study involving Intel-GE and a senior living provider known for innovation. Telehealth holds promise as a way for seniors to receive medical evaluations and interventions from the comfort of their own home through technologies such as video and wearable sensors. Providers see telemedicine […]
Clinicians and care managers will soon be able to remotely connect with and monitor patients in their home through a new partnership between Intel-GE Care Innovations and iHealth Lab, Inc. The partnership will integrate iHealth vital sign monitoring products into the Care Innovation Connect Platform, allowing clinicians to actively manage patient chronic conditions. The integration […]
Increasingly seen as a safety net for older parents and loved ones, electronic sensors and other home-based devices are giving peace of mind to families of the aging population, writes USA Today in a report this week. This “technological wave of global significance” is providing solutions from medication management to safety and communication, and is […]
Care Innovations, under a partnership between General Electric and Intel, is expanding its reach in caregiver technology through the launch of its Connect RCM product into Canadian markets. Connect RCM is a caregiver technology that allows for cloud-based remote care monitoring. Care Innovations is targeting the Canada market based on a growing demographic of caregivers, […]
In addition to its current caregiver tech solutions, Intel-GE Care Innovations has launched a new platform, in beta form, that is now available to streamline the process for all caregivers. Free of charge, caregivers can now access a platform to better enable the 65 million Americans who currently count caregiving among their responsibilities. The technology, […]
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 […]