MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — THA Group, a free
standing in-home health company serving coastal Georgia and South
Carolina, announced that it will be partnering with Cardiocom®
to expand its chronic telehealth program providing advanced home
telehealth technology to patients with chronic conditions.
Cardiocom, Experts in Telehealth(SM), is a world class
developer, manufacturer and clinical service provider of
award-winning telehealth solutions.
“Telehealth has significantly evolved over the eleven years we
have practiced telehealth, in terms of both software and hardware,
necessitating the need to explore systems to meet our current
needs,” says Ellen Bolch, President and CEO of THA Group. “We
chose Cardiocom’s telehealth system because it contains those
elements that THA Group deemed critical in a new telehealth partner
— sophisticated chronic disease management software with an
emphasis on self-management, easy to install and use monitors,
cellular capability, two-way integration with our Point of Care
System, and willingness to partner and develop new ways to advance
home health care as the solution to in-home, post acute care,”
added Bolch.
“As healthcare is rapidly moving towards an outcome based
payment structure, Cardiocom is thrilled to be collaborating
with a provider who is well known for pioneering innovative models
of care, ” says Daniel L. Cosentino, President and CEO of
Cardiocom. “We look forward to co-developing new features
that can allow home health care to continue to showcase their value
proposition,” further added Cosentino.
About THA Group
THA Group, a family of companies comprised of Island Health
Care, Independent Life at Home, Ideal Aging and Island Hospice (a
not-for-profit 501(c) 3), was the first home health company in the
Coastal Empire and Low Country to implement telemonitoring as the
standard of care. THA Group has been locally owned and
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