Just as important, we believe the patient will be emotionally benefited because a trained health care professional will be available to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The most common reasons for home care are diabetes, congestive heart failure, hypertension or chronic lung disease. Post-surgical patients, the disabled or even new mothers who require postpartum care, can also use the care stations. Care stations are designed for reliability and ease of use by many of the eight million patients currently receiving long-term care at home. The home station is set up and the patient or a caregiver is trained by the nurse.
Visits begin when either the case manager or the patient calls and the care station is connected.
Clinical data and images are collected by the patient station and are transmitted to the nurse case manager in real-time, then dated and stored as a documentation of the visit. In addition, the unit functions as a regular telephone. Humana is one of San Antonio's largest managed care companies providing health care services for more than 185,000 members. Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is one of the nation's largest publicly health services companies, with approximately 5.9 million medical members located primarily in 15 states and Puerto Rico.