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.
The recent growth in RPM has demonstrated its importance and potential to reduce or eliminate barriers and improve access to care for patients. By leveraging RPM and other digital health solutions as an important part of a multi-prong approach to care delivery, a future where all patients have equal access to high-quality healthcare becomes a closer reality.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
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.
Via AI-enabled RPM, healthcare organizations can reduce stress and burnout for nurses and clinical staff, an especially important consideration in a time of widespread healthcare staff shortages that are expected to continue.
Remote patient monitoring technology has been around for more than a decade, but health systems have had a difficult time scaling their programs. This is because the huge amount of data collected by RPM technology often creates more work for physicians, said Cadence CEO Chris Altchek.
In a recent webinar sponsored by 100Plus, the healthcare company provided a roadmap on how their RPM program works, including device deployment, collaboration with clinicians, implementation and reimbursement.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The goals of Anelto Health's HomeAssure remote patient monitoring solution, which utilizes AT&T cellular connectivity, are to help reduce to seniors' unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations and improve their overall health.
The company was founded last year and has developed technology that analyzes data from a combination of clinical and commercial devices to monitor and track the health status of patients at home.