Health Buzz: GE, Intel Plan Home-Health Venture and Other Health News

Digital Home Health Monitoring

"Telemedicine" as digital home monitoring has been known in the home health care industry,has not been widely used solely for one reason - a lack of reimbursement, particularly by the Medicare/Medicaid program. Devicesand the technology has been around since the early nineties, along with studies detailing the cost savings, but monitoring device companies continue to fail as there is no large payor source. Lately, very few insurance companies are picking up the tab within a narrow band of disease management programs only.

Telemedicine can positively impact costs related to re-hospitalizations as well as monitoring of "high-risk" patients, provided it is reimbursed within the realm of the general 'Home Health Benefit'. Over my 20+ years in home health care, I have seen decisions almost always being made in favor of a "reimbursible" Nursing Visit over implementing "non-reimbursible" telemedicine.

Outsoursing jobs

"It sounds like just another way to export medical jobs to India."

Marsha you have the beginnings of a point...however the education system in most countries are vastly superior to that of America ,I mean a President sent his daughter to the UK for undergraduate studies.

So when it comes to real brain work.. I expect to see the jobs off shored, I mean the brainpower in America needs to be focused on diets, size 0, celebrity, the next outfit to wear, reality shows, Ponzi schemes, arrogant bankers thinking that everyday people are still serfs and how to be the next american idol -

Will it create some local Jobs?

Is this a plan to utilize Obama's health care information system? If so and if it can create more jobs, welcome

GE Intel Home healthcare

It sounds like just another way to export medical jobs to India.

sleep

the 25 hour day schedule will alllow less neurons to fire from beyond the article of the constitution that predicts good health or should I say promotes good heath practices for all...

elligibility patterns have changed over the past 18 months .......

the birth of the modem could become the next big thing after mars hotel.......

newtonian physics reinvents the cathode ray tube with the timmer on.......

all this should go into the 20 million or so people that might be effected by this new design.......

turning on your tv could bring the camera closer to you than the doctor visits evry year or a stopover in London on the way back...

good data is hard to find when it comes to human interface devices .......

RE- Home health venture: Will monitoring doctors be in foreign countries?

RE- Home health venture: Will monitoring doctors be in foreign countries?

If getting help diagnosing personal computers is as difficult as it is when speaking to a call center help desk in a foreign country, I cannot begin to think of the problems and issues of remote diagnosis of actual human illnesses with the same format...

wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This technology has been available since the mid 1980' s duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mostly used in the outlying areas of developed countries

Saves airfares stress and patients get the prescription from the local pharmacy