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.

The Home Telehealth Community of Care

Look to the Home Telehealth Community of Care page for details on trends and the latest activity in home telehealth and telehospice. You'll want to use this information when you're ready to move beyond simply targeting patients with diabetes and heart disease for an in-house demo project.

Here's our 2010 Calendar for quarterly installment topics:

MARCH	Falls Among the Elderly: Key is Prevention, Not Detection
JUNE	Failing Sight: Making Your Way More Clearly with Tele-Assistance
SEPTEMBER	Multiple Sclerosis: Living Every Day in Better Control with Tele-Help

Each topical installment will include:

• State-of-the-art article summaries of the topic at hand and links to relevant legislation for telehealth use.
• Case examples of new directions for telehealth (in home assessment, financing, and other important needs).
• New tools of telehealth: Snapshot descriptions of new tools to assist in improved telehealth service delivery.
• Keynote Interviews featuring experts in home telehealth (or in the topic at hand and their views on telehealth applications). Three or more experts will comment on the value and realistic expectations of the new telehealth application — always the Home Telehealth Community of Care’s most popular segment.

View full-text of our topical installments from 2004 – 2006, with focuses on obesity and telehealth; telehospice; funding; and other important and still timely issues. Click here

As always, we will be using the Home Telehealth Community of Care page to move beyond simply targeting patients with diabetes and/or heart disease for an in-house demonstration project. Everyone in home telehealth needs to focus on broad and long-term planning choices for chronic disease and aging patients. Now, think about following hot directions for home telehealth described in each of our upcoming quarterly installments.