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Humana, a Florida-based insurer, and Healthsense, a Minnesota-based provider of technology services for seniors, have teamed up to study the impact of remote monitoring technology on the elderly.

Long-term Living»

Humana has partnered with technology firm Healthsense for a remote monitoring pilot program to measure the effects of in-home sensors and other monitoring technologies on improving health outcomes and reducing readmissions.

Becker's Hospital Review»

Major health insurance and wellness provider Humana Inc. and aging services technology company Healthsense have teamed up to enroll 100 Medicare-aged patients in a new remote monitoring pilot program.  The pilot will examine the effectiveness of home-based monitoring devices that may help senior citizens with complex needs or multiple chronic conditions remain healthy and independent for longer.

EHR Intelligence»

Health insurer Humana and Minnesota-based Healthsense, a provider of aging services technologies, have completed member enrollment in a remote monitoring pilot program. The pilot will measure the impact of in-home sensors and remote monitoring technology on improving health outcomes and reducing frailty and fall-related hospital admissions for Medicare members with chronic health conditions.

mHealth News»

2013 was a big year for the adoption of mobile medical applications by clinicians and consumers. It also saw the beginning of convergence between devices and apps used by clinicians and those used by consumers. (Registration required). 

Modern Healthcare»

Health insurer Humana and Minnesota-based Healthsense, a provider of aging services technologies, have completed member enrollment in a remote monitoring pilot program. The pilot will measure the impact in-home sensors and remote monitoring technology have on improving health outcomes and reducing frailty and fall-related hospital admissions for Medicare members with chronic health conditions.

Healthcare IT News»

Billions of tax dollars are being invested in the healthcare sector in the name of getting providers moved from paper to electronic records. But while updating hardware and implementing software programs are perhaps the most visible elements of the digital transition, an equally important shift is happening more or less behind the scenes in the world of coding.

Healthcare IT News»

Senior care tech provider Healthsense is partnering with insurance giant Humana in a national pilot program that aims to improve the health of older Americans who live in their own homes. Through Humana’s Humana Cares / Senior Bridge, the insurance provider identified 100 individuals under its Medicare Advantage coverage to participate in the yearlong pilot. Healthsense is providing its remote monitoring technology platform eNeighbor to each of the individuals in the program in an effort to gather data and improve outcomes for home-based senior users.

Senior Housing News»

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. & MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, and Healthsense a leading provider of aging services technologies, announced they have completed member enrollment in a groundbreaking remote monitoring pilot program. The pilot will measure the impact in-home sensors and remote monitoring technology have on improving health outcomes and reducing frailty and fall-related hospital admissions for Medicare members with chronic health conditions.

M2M Magazine»

Humana Inc.,one of the nation's leading health and well-being companies, and Healthsense, a leading provider of aging services technologies, announced they have completed member enrollment in a groundbreaking remote monitoring pilot program. The pilot will measure the impact in-home sensors and remote monitoring technology have on improving health outcomes and reducing frailty and fall-related hospital admissions for Medicare members with chronic health conditions.

Health IT Analytics»

Cardiologist Eric Topol says he knew medicine had reached a turning point when patients started emailing him the results of do-it-yourself electrocardiograms. With the help of a smartphone, a software application and a portable device that reads a person's heart rhythm, anyone can get an instant EKG reading on their phone screen.

The Wall Street Journal»

SummaCare, part of Akron, OH, -based Summa Health System, has selected Health Language solutions from Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global solutions provider for the healthcare industry. The leverage of LEAP I-10 and Provider Friendly Terminologies applications will assist the health insurance company in transitioning to ICD-10.

Health IT Outcomes»

Keeping up with the latest medical treatments and research is a herculean task for most doctors. Fortunately, online clinical decision support resources have made the task feasible by providing an external repository of knowledge that you can tap into when needed. Boston-based UpToDate, which is used in 90 percent of academic medical centres, employs 50 physician editors and 5,000 external contributors to scour sources to synthesize the best medical knowledge in their database, and their software can run on any Web-enabled device or standalone.

Technology for Doctors Online»

Dr. Stephen Beck discusses how HL7 Infobutton technology helps improve outcomes, accelerate clinician adoption of CDS and EHR technologies at Catholic Health Partners.

Clinical decision support (CDS) resources such as evidence-based reference content, order sets, care plans, medication alerting systems, and surveillance technology have been identified as key elements to successfully achieving the aggressive quality goals laid out in federal initiatives. However, leading industry research groups, including KLAS and The Advisory Board, report that widespread CDS use is hampered by electronic health record (EHR) integration challenges.

HIT Consultant »

In a healthcare world in which amazing things are increasingly possible — surgery through just a few tiny incisions, successful replacements of entire organs, treatment of once-fatal infections — sepsis is still a problem.

Becker's Clinical Quality and Infection Control»