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Colorado Medicaid Program Supports New Teleneurology Project

October 26, 2021 - Colorado’s Medicaid program is funding a three-year telehealth project aimed at offering virtual visits with neurologists to patients with Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other movement orders. The University of Colorado’s Movement Disorders Center will spearhead the teleneurology program, which will also...

Amazon Enhances Alexa for mHealth Platforms in Hospitals, Senior Homes

October 26, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

Amazon is ramping up its connected health platform with new services designed to expand Alexa’s capabilities in healthcare organizations and senior living facilities. Offered through the Alexa...

Regence Targets Missed Wellness Visits and Check-Ups With New Telehealth Program

October 05, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

A Pacific Northwest payer is expanding its telehealth platform in hopes that its 3 million members will get the health and wellness checkups they’ve skipped during the pandemic. Regence has...

Telehealth, RPM Strategies Help Hospitals Bring Acute Care Into the Home

August 06, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

A program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital that uses elements of telehealth and remote patient monitoring helped the Boston-based hospital care for 65 acutely ill patients at home during the...

UMass Memorial Eyes Telehealth, RPM Benefits in New Hospital at Home Program

July 09, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

UMass Memorial Health is joining the Hospital at Home movement, with a new program that integrates remote patient monitoring and telehealth strategies with in-person visits to provide care management...

Ochsner Health Takes Remote Patient Monitoring to a National Level

July 05, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

While many healthcare providers are just now getting into the remote patient monitoring arena, Ochsner Health has scaled its platform to a national level, and is now monitoring more than 20,000 people...

Pilot Program Uses Telehealth to Help LTC, Rehab Patients Transition Home

July 02, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

West Virginia University researchers are touting the early results of an ongoing program that uses telehealth to help residents transition back to home after a story in a nursing home or long-term care...

SF-Based FQHC Adds Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring to PACE Services

June 25, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

One of the nation’s largest non-profit federally qualified health centers is integrating telehealth and remote patient monitoring services into its PACE program to improve care for thousands of...

ASF Grants Fund Innovative Telehealth Services for Autism Treatment

June 08, 2021 by Victoria Bailey

The Autism Science Foundation’s (ASF) recently announced fourth round of COVID-19 Research Grants will fund projects that focus on telehealth use during the coronavirus pandemic. The grant...

Senators Want to Codify VA’s Telehealth Success, Add More Services

May 28, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth advocates have long used the Department of Veterans’ Affairs as an example of how telehealth is working well. A new bill before the US Senate aims to help the VA go even further with...

California Provider Sees Telehealth as an Integral Part of PACE Programs

May 27, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

A California-based healthcare provider is integrating telehealth into its PACE programs, saying the connected health platform improves its ability to provide value-based care for seniors in their own...

3 Health Systems Join Project to Create Continuous mHealth COVID-19 Monitor

May 26, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

Three health systems are joining a federally-funded project aimed at developing an mHealth platform that can continuously track COVID-19 patients at home and notify care providers the moment their...

Digital Duds: The mHealth Wearable Market Looks to Sensor-Embedded Clothing

May 21, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

The mHealth wearables industry has long been focused on activity bands and watches, even jewelry and smartglasses. Often overlooked is the concept of sensor-embedded clothing, but that form factor is...

Vendor Survey IDs Challenges for Remote Patient Monitoring Programs

May 12, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

A vendor-initiated study on remote patient monitoring programs that address patients with cardiac disease finds that many are missing out on important clinical and financial benefits. Conducted by RPM...

New Study Shows mHealth Games Help Children With Autism - And Their Parents

May 11, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

A recent pilot program has found that an mHealth game platform tailored for children with Autism not only improves behavioral health outcomes – it also reduces stress in parents. The...

WVU Researchers Try to Determine How Much Telehealth is Enough

May 11, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

With telehealth use skyrocketing over the past year and a half due to the coronavirus pandemic, some have wondered if there’s a limit to its effectiveness. Is there a certain number of virtual...

CTA, ACC Partner on mHealth, Telehealth Standards in Cardiovascular Care

May 10, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

The American College of Cardiology is partnering with the Consumer Technology Association to help providers get a handle on the fast-growing field of mHealth and telehealth devices for cardiovascular...

New mHealth Study Takes on Health Outcomes Among the Homeless

May 03, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

A new study being launched out of the University of Texas aims to see whether mHealth can improve healthcare access and outcomes for homeless people. Funded by a grant from the Health and Human...

Is Telehealth More Stressful for Nurses Than In-Person Care?

April 29, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth is often touted as a method for improving workloads and reducing stress on healthcare providers. But a recent study is questioning whether those services actually put more pressure on...

South Shore Health Leverages Telehealth, RPM in New ‘SNF at Home’ Program

April 21, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

South Shore Health is adding remote patient monitoring capabilities to its Mobile Integrated Health program, giving the one-year-old program telehealth and mHealth tools that aim to improve care...

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