Health Hero Network, Inc., a healthcare information services company, today announced they are working together to provide an online service that enables patients at home and their care providers to proactively manage chronic illnesses. The service will enable medical professionals to effectively track and support patients, while helping these patients better manage their conditions at home. This collaboration will create a frequent two-way communication link between healthcare providers and their patients. The service will give providers the frequent communication and baseline data that yield more opportunities to identify potentially serious situations sooner, help caregivers focus their care on those who need it most, and enable them to educate and motivate patients.
Care providers can customize the protocols for individual patients or groups of patients.
The Health Buddy appliance features a brightly lit, high contrast display screen with four large response buttons for answering questions. The Health Buddy appliance will also be able to transmit data from blood glucose meters and other home medical devices that export data, subject to FDA clearance. Patient responses and data from medical devices will be automatically downloaded each night via the EDS infrastructure and can be viewed by Health Hero Network clients. Information from patients travels via the ECMS to a central repository where it can be viewed from multiple geographical locations by care providers and case managers using a secure Internet connection. EDS has a vision of using technology to improve the lives of individuals.