Practice Unite, Uniphy Health unite for clinical communications
The combined company, which is taking the Uniphy Health name, wants to be a "single pane of glass" for physicians, nurses, home care aides and patients to stay engaged with each other.
The combined company, which is taking the Uniphy Health name, wants to be a "single pane of glass" for physicians, nurses, home care aides and patients to stay engaged with each other.
The idea behind the app for home health aides is to provide more efficient coordinated care and urgent care for seniors to help them stay in their homes longer and reduce avoidable ER visits.
"I don't think people give a damn about their health unless they're sick, then they care a lot," said Neal Sofian, vice president of engagement and innovation at Vivacity, a Premera Blue Cross wellness subsidiary, at the MedCity ENGAGE conference.
Mobile health business Practice Unite, which has added eight health systems and hospitals and four home healthcare agencies as customers in the past year, is moving into the remote monitoring business for geriatric care. It is providing the app to a consortium of home care groups, as part of a partnership between Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute […]
There is a sense of urgency in responding to calls and text alerts on mobile devices that make them both especially useful for contacting others faster and attention diverting. It has spurred mobile health startups and growth-stage companies from Seratis and Cureatr to Voalte to help medical staff ditch their pagers to make communication faster […]