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Video: Telehealth Pilot Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

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Packard Children's is partnering with Cisco Systems to meet the needs of families in our community and beyond. The video shown below is an overview of their  innovative telehealth network promises to bring our world-class care to the patients, rather than the other way around. Given the recent Supreme Court Ruling on the individual mandate, Telehealth is one of the key areas that will spur innovation as a result of the ruling.
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Video:Telemedicine on the Frontier

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As rural providers work to expand access to care to far-flung patients, telemedicine is an increasingly essential component of those efforts. In this exclusive video interview, the leadership team at Clearwater Valley Hospital in Idaho, talk to H&HN senior editor Suzanna Hoppszallern about building telemedicine coalitions with other community providers to better serve patients.
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Video:Kian Saneii, CEO of Independa, Inc. at HIMSS12

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HIT Consultant spoke with Kian Saneii, CEO of Independa, Inc. during this year's HIMSS12 where he talks about how Independa's technology enabled independent living solutions is taking healthcare outside of the four walls of hospitals and extending it to the home for continuity of care. Kian is also featured in this month's issue of Entrepreneur magazine sharing his story of how he was inspired to start Independa Inc. after watching his parents, both in their 70's, helped managed the care of
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Interview Podcast:Home Health Monitoring with Kian Saneii, CEO of Independa

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Earlier this month during CES 2012, Independa announced their plans for Health Measures,  a platform combining conventional telephony with existing Independa cloud-based services to improve remote care for the elderly.Health Measures allows home-health and home-care professionals, as well as senior-living facilities and family caregivers, to easily record a multitude of crucial biometric data, including weight, blood pressure, glucose level, temperature, pulse and heart rate. Information entered
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Independa Unveils New Home Health Monitoring Option

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  Independa today announced plans during the 2012 International CES for Health Measures – a platform combining conventional telephony with existing Independa cloud-based services to improve remote care for the elderly. Simple, affordable Health Measures doesn’t require cellular coverage, broadband service or wireless devices in the home, making it ideal for care recipients who live in rural areas with poor cellular coverage, have limited funds to invest in wireless health devices, or
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Video Case Study: How Telehealth Can Eliminate Barriers to Care

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The following video demonstrates how telehealth, including videoconferencing, can cost-effectively improve access to care for a high-medical-need population that is socially isolated, geographically dispersed, and experiences language and cultural barriers to care. In this project, specially trained pharmacists provided medication therapy management services to nearly 100 older Cambodian-Americans. Results Pharmacists identified 604 potentially harmful medication-related problems (MRPs).
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Legal and Regulatory Hurdles Confronting Telemedicine

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Telemedicine encompasses the use of technology to monitor patients remotely, store clinical data, or facilitate real-time communication between patients and providers.  In this podcast we examine some of the regulatory issues and other barriers preventing the faster expansion of telemedicine in the U.S.; including licensure, Internet/telemedicine prescribing, confidentiality and privacy of patient information, reimbursement and coding, and legal liability. Greg Billings; Senior Government
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