An expanded partnership effort between Brookfield, Wis.-based Honeywell HomMed and French mHealth solutions vendor eDevice could increase the benefits of telehealth monitoring for patients and healthcare providers by delivering greater access to health information utilizing existing network coverage at the patient's location. Read »

Children's Hospital at Montefiore is getting ready to implement new technology that will enable patients to interact with hospital staff, view educational and entertainment videos, and surf the Internet. Optimum Lightpath, a Cablevision unit focused on Ethernet services for enterprise-level businesses, will provide the Bronx, N.Y.-based hospital with this interactive healthcare technology. Read »

Analyst predictions that telehealth will top the $8 billion mark by 2012 are nice, but nothing announces a hot technology's full-on arrival like a signed joint marketing agreement. The latest involves Palm City, Fla.-based Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, which has inked a deal with with Consult A Doctor to provide MedFlash Personal Health Manager (PHM) to the more than 36 million Americans who are currently being treated via telemedicine. Read »

Telehealth has been claiming its rightful place in the headlines over the past couple months, with news of regional funding for telehealth networks and the arrival of new telemedicine technologies becoming an almost daily occurrence. Now that an estimated one-third of the nation’s best and brightest physicians are eyeing the exits, we can expect telehealth’s role in healthcare to really pick up steam. Necessity is still the mother of all invention. Read »

There’s good news for wireless watchers from the American College of Cardiology’s 59th annual conference in Atlanta this week. During one of the late breaking clinical trials sessions on Monday, a presentation spelled out how a wireless monitoring system that automatically sends information about an abnormal heart rhythm from a device in the patient’s chest to the cardiologist’s office significantly cuts the time between when a problem arises and a treatment decision is made. Read »

Following an April 2009 announcement, in which GE Healthcare and Intel pledged to jointly develop innovative technologies for independent living and chronic disease management, the tech companies--along with Mayo Clinic--are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of re-hospitalization. Read »

Healthcare tops the FCC's short list of priorities as the independent government agency gears up to deliver its National Broadband Report on March 17. Some are saying the news could be a boon to the telehealth industry, since, among other things, the FCC is calling for expanded reimbursement for e-care, increased pilot programs, revised credentialing requirements, and clarified regulations for converged communications and healthcare devices. Read »

Dunmore, Pa.-based Traditional Home Health and Hospice is beefing up its Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patient management program with an in-home patient vital signs monitoring system. The agency, which provides home health and hospice services to patients, has implemented the Electronic House Call system from Berkeley Heights, N.J.-based ExpressMD Solutions. Read »

In the wake of news that Boston’s MassGeneral Hospital for Children has implemented a new video program that puts doctors at the patient’s bedside 24/7—and another article showing how California has saved its taxpayers $13 million by using telemedicine to offset inmate transportation costs within the state’s prison system—Nashville, Tenn.-based SunCrest Healthcare has chosen Philips to supply telehealth monitors for its home care patients. Read »

The year is off to a good start for Corventis, which just received FDA clearance to market its NUVANT Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT) System for the detection of non-lethal arrhythmias. Equally important, the developer of wireless cardiovascular systems' Monitoring Center has been approved by CMS as an Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), and the company has received approval to bill for services provided to patients with Medicare and several commercial insurers, paving the way for the NUVANT MCT System to become available across the U.S. Read »