Distance, time and availability of skilled medical personal are the major forces in delaying effective medical treatment, especially in the preventative or emergency stages. Live-Vu has created its system to close the time gap for patients.
This system has been designed to reach almost anywhere in the world with solutions for nearly every wireless link, telephone line, Internet, or wideband connection. Our technology delivers video, audio and data support, even over standard phone lines and the US cellular network, allowing a provider to get immediate medical care even to "unreachable" rural locations.
Here are some of the key dynamics:
* There is a mushroom cloud of 78 million baby boomers hitting retirement age beginning in the next few years.
* In 2009 there is a current nursing shortage of 116,000 and 100,000 unfilled RNs for hospitals and nursing homes, respectively.
* In California there has been virtually no new Long Term Care Facilities built in the past ten years to house the avalanche of new chronically ill citizens.
* Doctors and especially medical specialists tend to be clustered in highly populated urban areas, which by its nature, under serves a vast area of America.
* Millions of dollars in Federal, state and private foundation grants are being made available to deploy telemedicine solutions.
* The need for video (doctor seeing resident) in elderly care facilities has become extremely apparent. An average of 8 out of 10 residents are not making it to their offsite medical appointments and an epidemic proportion of bed sores and other skin problems are going untreated. California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR)
* Most uses of telemedicine today requires premium wide band infrastructures to handle the minimum requirements of most video transmissions.
* The Federal government is pushing for the universal implementation of Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) systems to modernize healthcare delivery yet, EMR systems are primarily being used only in hospitals.
In the homecare market there are countless competitors in the data collection business. But, where a low bandwidth environment requires live video, we are aware of only one competitor and their system is inferior. We also add much needed medical components Stethoscopes, Wound Care Cameras and even Video Otoscopes for elderly care and homecare solutions. Hundreds of our videophones have been sold with and without kits, being used currently for home based healthcare.
Our system has an inherent ability to integrate our low bandwidth video devices and our data collection EMR database with any healthcare provider. Our SCN box allows for this integrating of differing video systems and EMR systems.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
VA Data Shows Home Health Technology Improves Access to Care
Current studies are demonstating the benefit of patient monitoring.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2009
VA Data Shows Home Health Technology Improves Access to Care
Peake: Entire Health Care System More Effective
WASHINGTON – Veterans with chronic conditions can manage their health and avoid hospitalization by using special technology provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in their homes, according to a recent study.
“The study showed that home telehealth makes health care more effective because it improves patients’ access to care and is easy to use,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake. “A real plus is that this approach to care can be sustained because it’s so cost-effective and more veteran-centric. Patients in rural areas are increasingly finding that telehealth improves their access to health care and promotes their ongoing relationship with our health care system.”
The study found a 25 percent reduction in the average number of days hospitalized and a 19 percent reduction in hospitalizations for patients using home telehealth. The data also shows that for some patients the cost of telehealth services in their homes averaged $1,600 a year – much lower than in-home clinician care costs.
The authors of the study in the current issue of the journal Telemedicine and e-Health are VA national telehealth staff members. The study looked at health outcomes from 17,025 VA home telehealth patients.
VA’s home telehealth program cares for 35,000 patients and is the largest of its kind in the world. Clinicians and managers in health care systems, as well as information technology professionals, have been awaiting the results of the telehealth study, said Dr. Adam Darkins, chief consultant in VA’s care coordination program, who led the study.
“The results are not really about the technology, but about how using it helps coordinate the full scope of care our patients need,” said Darkins. “It permits us to give the right care in the right place at the right time.”
VA’s Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Michael J. Kussman, said the key to the program’s success is VA’s computerized patient record system. “Data obtained from the home such as blood pressure and blood glucose, along with other patient information in the electronic system, allows our health care teams to anticipate and prevent avoidable problems,” he said.VA health care officials emphasize that home telehealth does not necessarily replace nursing home care or traditional care but can help veterans understand and manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic heart failure. Patients’ partnership with the medical team can delay the need for institutional care and maintain independence for an extended time.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 5, 2009
VA Data Shows Home Health Technology Improves Access to Care
Peake: Entire Health Care System More Effective
WASHINGTON – Veterans with chronic conditions can manage their health and avoid hospitalization by using special technology provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in their homes, according to a recent study.
“The study showed that home telehealth makes health care more effective because it improves patients’ access to care and is easy to use,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake. “A real plus is that this approach to care can be sustained because it’s so cost-effective and more veteran-centric. Patients in rural areas are increasingly finding that telehealth improves their access to health care and promotes their ongoing relationship with our health care system.”
The study found a 25 percent reduction in the average number of days hospitalized and a 19 percent reduction in hospitalizations for patients using home telehealth. The data also shows that for some patients the cost of telehealth services in their homes averaged $1,600 a year – much lower than in-home clinician care costs.
The authors of the study in the current issue of the journal Telemedicine and e-Health are VA national telehealth staff members. The study looked at health outcomes from 17,025 VA home telehealth patients.
VA’s home telehealth program cares for 35,000 patients and is the largest of its kind in the world. Clinicians and managers in health care systems, as well as information technology professionals, have been awaiting the results of the telehealth study, said Dr. Adam Darkins, chief consultant in VA’s care coordination program, who led the study.
“The results are not really about the technology, but about how using it helps coordinate the full scope of care our patients need,” said Darkins. “It permits us to give the right care in the right place at the right time.”
VA’s Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Michael J. Kussman, said the key to the program’s success is VA’s computerized patient record system. “Data obtained from the home such as blood pressure and blood glucose, along with other patient information in the electronic system, allows our health care teams to anticipate and prevent avoidable problems,” he said.VA health care officials emphasize that home telehealth does not necessarily replace nursing home care or traditional care but can help veterans understand and manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic heart failure. Patients’ partnership with the medical team can delay the need for institutional care and maintain independence for an extended time.
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