remote patient monitoring
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Providers
Why Mass General Brigham Wants to Move 10% of Patient Care to the Home
At HIMSS24, Heather O’Sullivan, Mass General Brigham’s president of healthcare at home, said that the health system wants to move 10% of all its medical patients to the home. She argued that there is “no greater model of care for being patient-centric,” and highlighted the care modality’s ability to alleviate burnout for some healthcare workers.
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HealthSnap Snags $25M to Help Providers Launch & Scale RPM Programs
HealthSnap closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Sands Capital. The Miami-based company seeks to help providers better care for a rapidly aging and chronically ill population through its remote patient monitoring platform.
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Do you advise self-insured employers? You Can Help Us!
Take part in this survey and share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health and navigation.
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How to Overcome the New Realities in Home Health Budget Strains
In navigating fiscal uncertainties, it is essential to acknowledge technology as a powerful ally, securing the resilience and long-term sustainability of home care for generations of patients and caregivers to follow.
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Remote Patient Monitoring: Pioneering Healthcare Through Quality Assurance
RPM has ushered in a new era of healthcare. However, navigating the complexities and challenges of this landscape requires a thoughtful QA strategy.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
A Zip Code Could Determine a Baby’s Fate in the NICU and How Technology Can Change That
Digital tools like remote monitoring devices, virtual care, and clinical intelligence platforms – all can be leveraged to fill gaps in care in rural hospitals as it relates to care in neonatal intensive care units. In the hands of a collective many, they can be deployed to level the playing field in caring for babies needing special attention and to increase bandwidth and improve adherence to quality guidelines.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
Fulfilling the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare with AI
Putting all the AI pieces into place effectively requires clarity of what organizations want to accomplish – and for much of healthcare, the Quadruple Aim remains at the very top. Although how to get there will look different, clarity on principles and values that will guide the development of what comes next is paramount to setting us up for years to come.
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Technology Contributes to Clinician Burnout. Here’s How It Can Make It Better.
The next wave of Medtech innovation must deliver truly smart connected care—not only building on our progress in collecting and integrating information about a patient, such as vital signs, diagnostic results and health history—but also using software to prioritize this information, streamline care delivery and provide actionable insights.
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Patient-Centric Digital Transformation: Rethinking Remote Monitoring for Comprehensive Care
A recent webinar sponsored by AVIA Health and Seamless MD examined how health systems use remote patient monitoring beyond the usual chronic condition applications, including surgical prep and recovery, women’s health, and more.
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Generative AI, RPM Were Among the Biggest Trends In Health IT Fundraising During Q2
Healthcare IT companies raised $1 billion in venture capital in Q2 — down slightly from the $1.3 billion raised in Q1 but up significantly from the $451.3 million raised in Q4 2022. Unsurprisingly, a lot of these investments were made in companies offering generative AI products. Another key trend was increasing cash flow to remote patient monitoring startups, likely caused by expanded reimbursement for these services.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
A webinar sponsored by AVIA Health and SeamlessMD will discuss the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend these benefits beyond chronic conditions all while using fewer staff resources.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
Rush Launches Program to Scale RPM for Chronic Conditions Management
Chicago-based Rush University System for Health recently struck a partnership with Cadence — the health system is beginning an RPM pilot using the startup’s technology platform and clinicians. Rush will enroll Medicare and Medicaid patients who have one or more of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, congestive heart failure and type 2 diabetes.
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Which Digital Health Tools Will Be the Greatest Victim to Turnover from Hospitals?
Hospitals’ digital health adoption exploded during the pandemic, leading to many vendor contracts spanning three to five years. As these contracts reach their expiration dates over this year and next, a new report predicts that telemedicine platforms and remote patient monitoring tools face the highest risk of being turned over by hospitals.
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Payers Need Clear Outcomes Data to Reimburse Digital Health, Experts Argue
It’s clear that services like telehealth and remote patient monitoring have potential to provide value within the healthcare industry, but hospitals and digital health companies need to show payers clearer evidence of the outcomes these care modalities can produce in order to earn reimbursement, panelists argued during MedCity’s INVEST conference.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
RPM is Changing How I Provide Care, And My Patients Love It
If you ask any physician about treating patients with chronic conditions, chances are they will […]
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5 Factors Holding Back Healthcare Practices From Adopting RPM
Just a quarter of healthcare practices offer remote patient monitoring, and the majority of them aren’t too eager to adopt the technology any time soon, according to a new report. A few factors are influencing this reluctance, including data security concerns, unclear reimbursement policies and training requirements.