on Feb 8th, 2006Health Buddy System Health Hero Network
The future of health lies in gadgets. The explosion of monitoring technologies like RFID tags is going to revolutionize how patients get diagnosed and deal with their problems. Welcome to the world of self-service health care. As long as it works, costs less, and gets rid of the problem, great! I hope these gadgets allow us to personalize their names. Health Buddy will get me to open my front door, but if you’re going to stick around awhile, please, allow me to be on a first name basis.
Health Buddy System from Health Hero Network
The Health Buddy system allows a variety of medical devices to connect to the Health Buddy appliance. Supported medical devices include blood glucose meters, weight scales, blood pressure monitors and peak flow meters. The combination of medical device monitoring and daily questions asked over the Health Buddy appliance coaches patients on their chronic condition and provides consistent meaningful data to health care providers allowing them to effectively manage their patients’ care.
Remote health monitoring technologies deliver health management programs that guide patients in self-care, education, and the collection of clinical information, including health self-assessment, symptoms and vital signs. Each patient interface automates data collection to allow healthcare providers to proactively manage, educate, and track a patient’s chronic condition. Early intervention and education allows patients to become active members in their own health care while enabling providers to increase quality of care and decrease costs.