Is Home Health on your radar?

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<p><span class="heading026288"><a id="bits" name="bits"></a>Bits & Bytes: </span><span class="heading026288">Home Health Care</span><br /><b><i>Workplace, technology, and health care by the numbers…</i></b></p><p><strong>$49 billion</strong> – total U.S. spending on home health care in 2005<br /><span class="contentSmall_ital">Source: <a href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org" target="_blank">www.kaisernetwork.org</a></a>, "Daily Health Policy Report," February 22, 2006</span></p><p><strong>7.6 million</strong> – people in the U.S. require some form of home health care<br /><span class="contentSmall_ital">Source: <a href="http://www.ohsuhealth.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.ohsuhealth.com" target="_blank">www.ohsuhealth.com</a></a>, "Home Health Care Statistics"</span></p><p><strong>2.4 million</strong> – elderly or sick people receive home care through Medicare<br /><span class="contentSmall_ital">Source: <a href="http://www.cms.hhs.gov" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.cms.hhs.gov" target="_blank">www.cms.hhs.gov</a></a>, "Home Health Quality Initiatives Overview"</span></p><p><strong>8,100</strong> – certified home health agencies in the United States<br /><span class="contentSmall_ital">Source: <a href="http://www.cms.hhs.gov" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.cms.hhs.gov" target="_blank">www.cms.hhs.gov</a></a>, "Home Health Quality Initiatives Overview"</span></p><p><strong>$34 billion</strong> – projected revenue in 2020 for health care technologies on and around the body that free care from formal institutions<br /><span class="contentSmall_ital">Source: <a href="http://www.forrester.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.forrester.com" target="_blank">www.forrester.com</a></a>, "Healthcare Unbound's Early Self-Pay Market," July 1, 2005</span></p>

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<h1>Industry group seeks standards agreement</h1><div class="Source"><div class="SourceCore"><font size="2">Healthcare IT News</font> </div></div><table class="ExtraInfo" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td class="Byline"><h4>By  <span><a href="http://mailto:Caroline.Broder@medtechpublishing.com" target="_blank">Caroline Broder, Senior Editor</a></span> </h4></td><td class="TimeStamp" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px"><h5>06/06/06</h5></td></tr></table><div class="Body">(<span class="dateline">SAN FRANCISCO</span>) A group of technology, healthcare and fitness companies on Tuesday announced the formation of an industry group that will agree on standards to allow healthcare and medical devices to interconnect. The goal is to allow patients to receive care or advice outside the traditional healthcare setting. <div class="BodyAd"><div class="Continue"><br />Founding members of the Continua Health Alliance include GE Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Motorola, Nonin, Omron Healthcare, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Partners HealthCare, Polar Electro, Royal Philips Electronics, RMD Networks, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, The Tunstall Group, Welch Allynm Zensys. BodyMediam, Cisco Systems, IBM and Intel. <br /><br />The group will focus on chronic disease management, monitoring for the elderly and health and fitness.  For example, standards could address how  devices such as weight scales or pedometers to transmit information through a computer or cell phone to a nutritionist. In another scenerio, devices to monitor a chronic condition could connect to a home network. The elderly could live independtly for longer with the help of sensors placed in the home, David Whitlinger, chairman of the Continua Health Alliance and director of Healthcare Device Standards in Intel’s Digital Health Group, told Healthcare IT News. <br /><br /> “We are creating an organization where several seemingly disparate industries can work together to combine their products and services through connectivity standards and provide millions of people with the tools they need to better manage their health and the health of their families,” he said in a statement. <br /><br />The group will not create new networking standards, but will create guidelines  for standards that device makers and others could use to make sure their products work together. Continua will collect use cases for the three areas this summer. In September, member companies will select use cases and begin work on the guidelines. The guidelines would be published one year later, Whitlinger said. <br /><br />The group aims to create a product certification program with a sticker logo to indicate interoperability with other certified products. Logo certification would begin in 2008. <br /></div></div></div>

张琨

haha, we posted the same report,
<br />we are Suojian Luetong

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<p>英雄所见略同。。。呵呵</p><p><a href="http://www.continuaalliance.org/home/" target="_blank">http://www.continuaalliance.org/home/</a></p>