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New Technology Enables Seniors to Remain at Home

Intel health Guide


April 1, 2010 (Carmel, IN) -- - Fulfilling its role as a nationwide leader in home care, Nightingale Home Healthcare is proud to announce the implementation of a cutting-edge technology for the benefit of its clients.

The Intel Health Guide is a comprehensive, next-generation remote patient monitoring solution that combines an in-home patient device, the Intel Health Guide with the Intel Health Care Management Suite, an online interface, to enable clinicians to monitor patients in their HOME and remotely manage care.

Intel Corporation is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. The company is the world's largest semiconductor chipmaker, based on revenue. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, as Integrated Electronics Corporation and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing. Originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, Intel's "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.

The benefits of Intel technology include:

  • Connecting patients and healthcare professionals for personalized care
  • Providing the right care, in the right setting-at the right time
  • Better tools to manage the ever increasing number of chronically ill patients
  • Improved patient self-management
  • Patient-centered design, focused on the needs of the aging
Intel health Guide The Intel Health Guide, a feature that Nightingale will add in the near future, will make it easier for patients to monitor vital signs such as blood pressure, weight, blood glucose, oxygen saturations, and others right from their home. The readings are then transmitted to a Nightingale healthcare professional that monitors them…365 days per year. This proactive approach catches changes in the patient's health that could become catastrophic especially with the easily susceptible elderly population. In the initial implementation of this technology, it has provided Nightingale success stories already.

Nightingale now has the capability to view each patient in his/her totality-heath status, social network, and individual preferences. The unique program helps homebound patients to follow a therapeutic rehab program that has been individually tailored by his/her physician and then programmed on the Intel Health Guide by the patient's Nightingale therapist.

According to Nightingale healthcare professionals, patients have responded with better compliance and earlier recovery. The in-home programs are designed not only for patients recovering from knee or hip surgery but also from heart and other major surgeries, arthritic problems, and gait and other abnormalities that require recovery through rehab.

According to Dr. Dev Brar, President of Nightingale Home Healthcare, future home healthcare compliance will soon demand the use of remote (telemedicine) monitoring of patients. "For many healthcare organizations, this technology will require adaption and training, but at Nightingale we have offered the service since 2002. That is why we stand out as leaders in home healthcare. At Nightingale Home Healthcare, we are proud and humbled to serve seniors and other homebound clients. Our motto is, "Our patients ALWAYS come first." And we do that by offering cutting-edge technology and essential services. But, it is not about a home healthcare company delivering basic services but how those services are delivered, tracked, followed up, audited, and supplemented with ancillary services and latest technology. That's what sets Nightingale apart from any other home healthcare company in the entire country", stated Brar.

Nightingale Home Healthcare is a leading, privately held provider of home health care solutions. Headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, the award-winning company is dedicated to providing the highest quality of care while respecting the dignity of each individual they serve. Founded in 1996, Nightingale offers a broad range of high quality home health care services and the most innovated technology, including nursing services, physical therapy, certified home health aides, occupational therapy, speech therapy, home maker/companion, and much more.

To learn more about Nightingale Home Healthcare, visit www.HomeCareForYou.com or call 1-866-334-7777.