NY’s Northwell Health Home Care partners with HRS for telehealth tablets

February 9, 2017 | by
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HRS.jpg” thumb_width=”175″ /]New York State’s largest health system, Northwell Health, is partnering with Hoboken, New Jersey-based (and Blueprint Health grad) telehealth provider Health Recovery Systems (HRS) on introducing their tablets into their Home Care Network. The picture at left is of Bernard Feinstein, a 100-year-old Queens-resident Northwell Health patient, who seems to be easily using and handling the touchscreen tablet. HRS tablets are video-enabled for consults and monitor vital signs, connecting via Bluetooth to devices: stethoscope (heart and lung), pulse oximeter , blood pressure, and weight scale. If one enjoys examples of pretzel logic, the release states that Northwell’s telehealth implementation is one of the first–of Bluetooth-enabled monitoring in NY State home care and the first on Long Island. (Cable-connected telehealth systems have been commonplace since 2003, including Northwell’s home care.) The HRS partnership follows on Northwell Ventures’ $1 million Series A investment in Virginia-based telemedicine provider Avizia. Innovate LI,

CHF readmissions cut 53 percent with telehealth tablet

April 21, 2015 | by

Favorable news for the growing area of tablet-based telehealth. A six-month trial of an tablet-based telehealth system for congestive heart failure (CHF) with patients at Philadelphia-area Penn Medicine’s (University of Pennsylvania) post-discharge program reduced readmissions from an already low 8 percent to 3.8 percent, a 53 percent positive change, versus the national average of 19.5 percent. The provided 4G tablet+app program through Health Recovery Systems is used by the patient for an average 85 days. He or she sends vital signs, symptoms, medication information (including side effects) to a nurse care coordinator; the app on the tablet provides coaching via patient education, instructional videos and individualized self-care plans coordinated with the telehealth nurse on the program. (more…)