Philips Respironics Wins Award

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Bizarre. And you see where this is published: The Wall Street Journal. And I am with you. Unless there is a real need, I do not need 'big brother' (taken here to mean 'doctors or anyone else') monitoring every breath I take. Next thing you know, they will tax every breath I take.

Shhhh..... Don't give my my state legislature any ideas

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Electronic House Call? That sounds a bit Big Brotherish.

ExpressMD™ Solutions, a provider of remote patient monitoring systems and services for patients with chronic illnesses, announced today that it has developed an interface between its Electronic House Call (EHC) in-home remote patient monitoring solution and DeVilbiss Healthcare's IntelliPAP® AutoAdjust® Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device, which is used to treat obstructive sleep apnea.

The introduction of this interface allows the EHC solution to be used in the monitoring, management and optimization of a patient's adherence to their sleep therapy program. Specifically, the EHC interface is designed to enable care providers prescribing the CPAP device to remotely monitor and verify therapy compliance, which is required under new Medicare regulations for reimbursement of the services.

Joe Howard, Vice President of Marketing at DeVilbiss Healthcare, stated, "This new system will not only provide an efficient means to satisfy the new Medicare PAP LCD requirements for adherence, but could also facilitate improved patient outcomes. The Electronic House Call will allow providers to monitor the use of the IntelliPAP device and intervene rapidly in the event that the patient encounters any issues with their therapy. A critical component to establishing an adherent PAP patient is to provide education and support – both of which are offered through this revolutionary solution."

The Electronic House Call solution allows healthcare providers to manage more patients without increasing staff overhead costs and to improve personalized care plans and vital statistics monitoring, while reducing the requirement for home and office patient visits. Automated features can increase patient care plan compliance effortlessly while improving patient medical condition monitoring and providing online disease and illness education. Using remote patient monitoring for chronic patient illness management can reduce the incidence of emergency hospitalizations and readmissions, minimize the severity of reoccurrences, improve condition outcomes for patients and reduce the overall cost of patient care.

"The use of our EHC solution to remotely monitor and manage a patient's sleep therapy program is an exciting new market opportunity for homecare providers and physicians. It is important to note that many of the chronic illnesses that the EHC solution can manage have co-morbidities with sleep apnea. There are approximately 18 million Americans with sleep apnea. Further, the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research estimates that 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders and another 20 to 30 million experience sleep problems intermittently. The commission estimated direct costs of sleeplessness at $15.9 billion annually and another $100 billion or more in indirect costs," stated Ronald Mills Managing Director of ExpressMD Solutions.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... 86012.html

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[kwikwater]

Calm yourselves!! Yikes!! let's try a glass half full option. Big Brother has lived among us forever. The second there's enough of an application like this, hopefully the computer geeks among us would develop a firewall that leans towards US, if in fact the other team had that option. I have given up on my closest DMEs which are 55 & 90 miles away. This morning I'm waiting for a phone call from the tech folks at my online machine vendor in Ohio to see if my machine really needs to go back to the manufacturer. I would LOVE to have them be able to just look in my machine for a couple days!!! I hope that as our apnea world is in it's infancy, we can have developments continuing. A baby doesn't run first in the Olympics. Let these "idiots" fall down. I think they'll soon discover that the professionals that they try to cater to and protect with products they try to keep away from us, the consumers, they will learn. It's hopefully disheartening to them (Phillips) when they get minimal response. I can't believe this will even appeal to a medical world that is as unresponsive to us as most of us seem to have!! For the good Docs, this could be good. ...jmo....
Kelvin

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Calm yourselves!! .... I think they'll soon discover that the professionals that they try to cater to and protect with products they try to keep away from us, the consumers, they will learn. It's hopefully disheartening to them (Phillips) when they get minimal response. I can't believe this will even appeal to a medical world that is as unresponsive to us as most of us seem to have!! For the good Docs, this could be good.

I would tend to agree with this if it were not for our medical markets being so tied up in government regulations. We don't have a market where suppliers' first priority is to respond to customer needs and wants. Their first priority is to navigate and game their way through a regulatory maze.