Welcome back! After being disbanded for the past 2 years, we're back on track as of early March 2010 --with a new Home Telehealth Community of Care page: Falling Among the Elderly: Prevention Not Detection is Key, updates on upcoming telehealth-related meetings and all other happenings of note particularly in the home telehealth arena.

About IFT

Information For Tomorrow is an independent healthcare research and consulting company which specializes in home telehealthcare tools and applications. Since 1995 (a lifetime in the very short history of home telehealth), we have produced more than one dozen informational reports that identify key developments underway in the rapidly emerging home telehealthcare arena. Home telemedicine-related projects we've completed for our clients since 1995 include particular focuses on chronic disease patient management with emphases on diabetes, heart disease, and needed tools for home care tele-delivery.

Our Clients, since 1995, include:

medical equipment manufacturers	HealthCare Vision, Inc. Alaris Medical Systems B. Braun Medical ScottCare, Inc. Casio Medical Systems
electronics & telecommunications companies	Thomson Consumer Electronics TeliaPubliCom (Stockholm, Sweden)
academic & research institutions	New York Presbyterian Hospital Georgetown University Medical School Advanced Telemedicine Training Center at East Carolina University The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Audrey Kinsella, is the Research Director and Lead Writer
Information For Tomorrow…. Home telehealth program planning services

"She is arguably the most knowledgeable person in North America about home telemedicine and what works" -Glenn Macdonald CEO, CI Solutions Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Since 1995, Audrey Kinsella, MA, MS, has published extensively in home telehealth, with more than 100 published articles and 6 books on home telemedicine to her credit which have been awarded 5-star reviews. See the complete list of titles by clicking here.

In addition, she has produced web sites for large-scale, national projects, such as the National Library of Medicine-sponsored site, the Telemedicine Information Exchange (http://tie.telemed.org); Georgetown Medical School’s sites for home telediabetes and home teledialysis programs; the new technologies page on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Last Acts site for improved end-of-life care, among other web offerings. Ms. Kinsella also holds an executive certificate in home modification and planning from the Andrus Gerontology Center and writes frequently on the need for helping the elderly and disabled to age safely in place.

Information For Tomorrow frequently partners with other experts in telehealth, biomedical engineering, and home health care on projects that are interdisciplinary and demand broad expertise. Partners have included: Gary Glissman, RN, Barry B. Cepelewicz, MD, Esq.; Stephen B. Kaufman, and Linda C. Pearce, RN, CDE.