"care management" articles

Parks Associates supports Digital Health Summit at CES on January 9, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Harry Wang , Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will be a panelist on the session "Consumers Driving Healthcare: Capitalizing on the Opportunities" on January 9 from 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM. In the US alone spending for chronic disease management is expected to increase from $500 billion a year to $685 billion by 2020. Consumers are on–the-go...

Harry Wang , Director, Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates will be moderating the panel "Chronic Disease Management and Care Compliance Assurance" at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2009 in San Diego on Thursday, October 8, at 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM in room 29B. Combating rising healthcare costs is a top priority in our nation’s economic struggle. This session will explore the application of wireless to chronic disease management for the benefit of...

Parks Associates supports Partners Healthcare's 2009 Connected Health Symposium & Expo from October 21-22 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Connected Health Symposium asks how information technology -- cell phones, computers, the Internet and other tools -- can help people manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness, and age with independence. What’s up for discussion? Sessions include: - The Amazing Effects on Health of Personal Social Networks -- and How to...

Mobile carriers to open new market opportunities in healthcare with wireless technologies The U.S. market for wireless home-based healthcare applications and services will grow at a five-year cumulative annual growth rate of over 80% and become a $4.4 billion industry in 2013, according to Wireless Healthcare: Analysis & Forecasts. The report from international research firm Parks Associates predicts the push for healthcare reform from the Obama Administration will ultimately...

This morning CardioNet announced that effective on September 1, 2009, Medicare will cut payment rate for mobile cardiac monitoring service (code 93229) from $1,123 to $754, a 33% reduction. The rate cut has been in the rumor mill for some time, but CardioNet’s management only recently reduced its guidance for 2009 revenues and earnings. It appears that the rate cut is deeper than management’s expectation as the company’s stock tanked 30% after a 40% drop just a week and half ago....

GE Healthcare struck another R&D alliance in the home patient monitoring sector in less than a year after the Quietcare deal. This time, its partner is Intel. Like the Quietcare deal, the partnership also allows GE to co-market Intel’s Health Guide, a home health monitoring gateway product. The two companies will also contribute a combined $250 million over five years on R&D in this field. Intel is fortunate to land GE as a partner and distributor as the latter’s health...

Last week, Walgreens kicked off a campaign to begin offer free basic medical care through its walk-in clinics in retail stores. Recipients of the free care must be people that recently lost their jobs and their immediate family members. There are other strings and restrictions. For instance, annual exams and vaccinations are excluded. Walgreens’ Take Care Clinics are not as widely available as its drug stores. The retail clinic chain now has about 340 stores in 30 metro locations, or...

Ever since the Obama administration unveiled its healthcare reform initiatives and associated budget plans, electronic medical record has received a substantial amount of attention. This week, a survey result showing that only 9% of the nation’s hospitals have electronic medical records caused quite a stir among pundits, medical professionals and policy makers. Two major sponsors of the study are the federal government and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the survey is based on a...