Telemedicine Information Exchange

We found this information-rich site called Telemedicine Information Exchange.

Here's an excerpt from one of the typically trenchant article posted there:

Home healthcare is at a unique crossroad. Providers face a multitude of pressures from every direction - patients, personnel, and government. They must deal with a shrinking pool of clinicians, an aging, more chronically ill population, tighter regulations, and declining reimbursement. How providers choose to meet these challenges and continue to provide outstanding health care will be the deciding factor in many organizations' future success or failure. This is not a topic for idle speculation; it is essential to begin formulating a plan to handle these challenges now. Home healthcare providers must consider a paradigm shift away from reactive care to a proactive care model (Technology Administration, 2004). In a proactive system, patients take greater part in their own disease management and clinicians can monitor patients more closely, which enables them to provide preventative intervention before situations become acute. Home healthcare providers can achieve these goals for themselves and their patients by using technology - specifically, interactive telehealth technology.

We would argue that the "tele" in telehealth is NOT the phone, because it's not a good way to continually send data in real-time-- our system uses the GSM network-- but the spirit of telehealth (increasingly called "Digital Home Health"), we think, is spot-on.

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