May 9 2014
Authentidate Holding Corp., a provider of secure web-based software applications and telehealth products and services for healthcare organizations, today announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has exercised its third option to extend the term of the contract for Home Telehealth Devices and Services with Authentidate.
The term of this option year begins May 15, 2014 and extends the contract to May 14, 2015. The base contract also includes one additional one-year option to extend the contract beyond this term.
Many VA facilities throughout the country already utilize Authentidate's Telehealth Solutions, which include the Electronic House Call™ (EHC) vital signs monitoring device, the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and the Authentidate Telehealth website, to remotely monitor patients and enhance patient care for Veterans on the Care Coordination Home Telehealth (CCHT) program. This program is designed to improve overall patient health outcomes, reduce hospital readmissions and emergency hospital and doctor visits.
Clinicians use the EHC or the IVR solution to remotely monitor their patients' vital signs and gather qualitative information about their patients' health to supplement in-person visits and help improve patient compliance with their care plans. Clinicians can review their patients' remote monitoring session results securely using Authentidate's web-based application and remotely manage or adjust their patients' care plans, medication reminders and related information. Clinicians can also use the web-based application to provide disease-specific education to their patients through the EHC or IVR solutions.
Ben Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer at Authentidate commented, "The VA is a very important customer for Authentidate and we are proud to continue to support them in providing outstanding health care to our Veterans. The CCHT program has continued to grow each year and we believe that we are well positioned to significantly increase the number of Veterans that we serve during the coming year. We strive to provide the finest services to this important customer and we look forward to continuing to serve their needs with our innovative telehealth solutions."
Source: http://www.authentidate.com/