Telehealth

By using telehealth, CaroMont Regional Medical Center reduces ER overflow hours from 1,700 to just 148, reports Healthcare IT News Managing Editor Bill Siwicki in a new case study.

The new technology connects on the first attempt 96% of the time, compared with 73% for the previous telemedicine carts; with enhanced monitoring and support, tele-neonatology availability is 99%.

The companies say their approach to remote patient monitoring is uniquely modular and customizable, enabling provider organizations to implement pieces of an end-to-end system that best meet their particular needs.

Nonin Medical's Chris Holland and telehealth consultant Mark VanderWerf discuss the usability and logistics improvements Nonin made to its pulse oximeter to make it more desirable for the elderly.

Smartphones and tablets are among the mobile technologies in focus, which can be combined with telehealth video conferencing and healthcare wearables, as well as the deployment of electronic health record-based patient portals.

According to Google's blog post announcing the acquisition, we can expect to see more "Made by Google" wearables alongside Fitbit devices running Wear OS.

The portable point of care devices, which give remote providers the capability to image, measure and record wounds and skin healing data, will be deployed across Western Australia.

Livpact offers tools and resources to help adult children take care of aging parents with Alzheimer's or other chronic conditions, says MaryAnne Sterling, EVP of caregiver experience.

Nick Woods, co-founder of California-based Hazel Health, says virtual care delivered from the school nurse's office is improving students' access to doctors.

Longtime telemedicine pioneers from the provider and vendor sides see a near-term future of more efficient care, and describe a longer-term view of "virtualist centers in what were formerly known as hospitals."