WebVMC Selected As Provider By Windsor Place, For Ground-Breaking Telehealth Application
Conyers, GA - Windsor Place At-Home Care, in a jointly-sponsored study with the State of Kansas Dept. of Aging and the University of Kansas Medical Center Telemedicine Program, has selected WebVMC, creator of the RemoteNurse mobile technology system, to provide its Web-based patient monitoring system for a 12 month, 50 patient study commencing this summer. The announcement was made by Monte Coffman, Windsor Place Executive Director and Bill Behnke, chief development officer for WebVMC.
This program will be the first time the state has experimented with telemonitoring in the homes of seniors covered under the Frail Elderly Act which provides them long-term care services at home. The study will introduce wellness monitoring and management to the frail elderly population of the state who currently have no health information management program.
According to Coffman, after going through a national interview and demonstration process with major telehealth providers, Windsor Place selected WebVMC as the best choice to meet the multiple needs of this ground-breaking application in the area of senior in-home long-term care.
"The size of WebVMC's device screens, the color-coded features and the larger print were all essential for our end user, the frail elderly," he said. "Additionally, WebVMC's education content and clinical protocols were convincing as well as the ease of connectivity and use. We look forward to a successful outcome to this study with WebVMC as our partner."
Fifty RemoteNurse units with as many as five peripheral measurement devices (depending on the individual patient diagnosis) will be placed in homes of individual patients. The intention is to keep seniors in their own homes as long as possible and out of nursing and long-term care facilities, as well as to minimize hospitalizations, emergency room visits and scheduled physician visits.
WebVMC has provided successful solutions to hospitals and home healthcare providers across the country and is one of the recognized industry leader in Web-based telehealth technology. Scott Sheppard, president and chief technology officer of WebVMC, believes that the company's Web-based telemonitoring solution will deliver better community-based care to at-risk patients while improving their quality of life and reducing the need for acute hospital intervention.
"Remote disease management is a new and effective way to measure and monitor health status in the comfort of the resident's living situation, and to give physicians and nurses access to this information right away so they can quickly identify any changes that need to be addressed," said Sheppard. "Our program is interactive, easy to use, affordable, and can provide vital health information to not only the clinical care team but the patient's family as well."
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Going well beyond vital signs monitoring, WebVMC is the telehealth system that delivers True Disease Management. Its advanced solution uses the power of technology for full-circle communication – connecting patients, their families, healthcare professionals and providers.
With WebVMC's multi-platform, software-based system, health care providers can achieve their disease management objectives, decrease costs, provide better quality of care, increase compliance, improve utilization and realize greater ROI.
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SOURCE: Windsor Place