These systems are designed for personalized care to save time for the caregiver and the patient. Free 30 day evaluation is available upon request ! There are boundless patient benefits as well as caregiver benefits. Seniors First Direct categorizes by professional discipline and lists your contact information in our directory.

Cost savings typically realized by the use of home telehealth, as in this case, are seen in the short term (in reductions of on-site personnel) and in the long term (as a result of reduced numbers of costly hospitalizations and visits to emergency rooms).

After more than a decade, some acceptance has taken hold of the idea of home telehealth service use. Home telehealth is health and education services delivered to patients in their homes in part by telecommunication devices like the telephone and telecommunication-ready healthcare monitors like a blood pressure cuff. More remote (rather than in-person) contact with patients is possible using telehealth as an adjunct to conventional care. With telehealth and the increased opportunities for communications that it affords, health professionals can assess patients' status and change and reiterate parts of their care plan routines, as frequently as is needed.

This increased contact is much needed today apart from the comfort value that it provides. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, changes in the financing of conventional home care have significantly affected doing home care "business as usual." A greater thrust toward demonstrating improved patient health outcomes and accountability of monies spent has become the order of the day as a result of home care's chief payer--the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)--instituting the Prospective Payment System (PPS) for Home Care, in October 2000.       The impending nursing shortage nationwide will affect the delivery of usual home care services as well. Add to the mix an increasing number of patients discharged earlier to home care, owing to hospital-based PPS and its bent toward reduced lengths of stay, (LOS), and telehealth contact that is used as a supplement to the conventional two-to-three-times-per week in-person home nursing visit is becoming very much welcomed indeed.

But using telehealth is not a last resort option by any means. Challenged by fewer (affordable) visits, fewer nursing staff, and increasing and often costly legions of elderly home care patients, nurses and patients alike can benefit from focused and frequent telehealth contact. According to Gary L. Glissman, BS, RN, CCM, who is a long-time nurse and home care agency manager, the opportunities for providing home telehealth solutions are virtually unlimited:

Is there value in telehealth? Yes, and it's two-fold at least. Among these:

1. Nurses can be more alert to patients' current needs and address these needs in a more timely manner than ever before;
2. Patients who receive telehealth interventions can receive more comprehensive management, leading to more rapid stabilization and, ideally, learn how to become more competent in self management skills (learning self management being the most cost effective home health service interaction of all).

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SimVisits® is an innovative video conferencing product that provides unique and secure Internet visitation capabilities through:

• High-quality video
• Rich audio
• Interactivity and ease of use in real time

SimVisits® is NOT PC-based. And thats Important!

SimVisits® is a dedicated video-server conferencing system built on its own proprietary hardware and software. As a result, SimVisits® avoids such PC problems as: viruses, security breeches, improper data access, download errors, high-maintenance and many more.

But SimVisits® is PC Accessible. While residents and patients use a simple controller to receive SimVisits®, outside callers can use their own computers by installing the SimVisits® software.

• Be used as a competitive advantage
• Deliver capabilities for resident and physician communications
• Provides the ability to enhance Life Support services with a one-touch Help button
• Provide the potential to improve revenue and decrease cost

For more information Contact: Paul Tisdell National Account Mgr. : email ptisdell@seniorsfirstdirect.com    Tel: 1-585-323-9194 ask for a price quote: or Email, sales@seniorsfirstdirect.com

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