Healthcom and NDSI Software announce the integration of home health agency software and telehealth technology
Partnership yields powerful application merging clinical and financial operations with advanced remote monitoring
Newport News, VA – May 15, 2006 – Healthcom, Inc., a market leader in telehealth monitoring and health communications, today announced integration of its web-centered telehealth technologies with NDSI Software’s nHOME Complete™ home health agency software. The integration yields an advanced, single solution combining automated clinical and financial operations with remote patient data in an electronic record seamlessly incorporating remotely monitored patient data. The integration of these technologies is ideal for smaller agencies facing pay-for-performance challenges who are unable to invest in extensive IT infrastructure.
Integration of telehealth data, including numerous biophysical measurements and medication compliance, allows caregivers to collect, evaluate, and act on changes in patient condition and easily share timely data with other care providers. nHome Complete, a powerful enter-once application that can be extended to point-of-care, now includes Healthcom’s remote patient monitor data within its electronic patient record. This permits timely intervention, decision-support, and precise physician communication.
Healthcom provides an array of telehealth systems that include monitored medication dispensing systems, medication adherence reminders, and emergency home response systems in addition to wireless remote vital signs solutions. The company offers a simple rental program as well as purchase plans, and complete repair/recycling program service center. Healthcom technologies permit agencies to adopt a telehealth-centered care-delivery model that drives efficiencies and improves patient outcomes by delivering continuous objective data for utilization in near-real time.
NDSI Software supplies a highly effective, fully integrated agency solution for automated care plan creation, AR/AP, scheduling, business development and human resource functions, covering Medicare/Medicaid, private-pay, commercial insurance and hospice environments.
“Today, home health agencies need integrated solutions that improve income and outcomes”, said John Strucke, Vice President at Healthcom. “This partnership extends the powerful capability, even in small agencies, of connecting providers, patients, and family caregivers. The early discovery of downward trends, and timely intervention, are the keys to improved outcomes”. Healthcom provides affordable telehealth solutions that include wireless biophysical monitors, a national data communications network, secure online data with tools, and in-home video visits.
“With homecare Pay for Performance on the horizon, improvement in outcomes is paramount for financial growth in home care agencies. We at NDSI are excited about this joint venture with Healthcom, to pioneer a total integration of telehealth and home care software”, said Hank Hernly, President at NDSI. NDSI provides a fully integrated home care software solution that is affordable for all types and sizes of agencies.