Care Management

Mayo Clinic Launches New Platform for Analyzing Data From mHealth Devices

by Eric Wicklund

The Mayo Clinic has launched a new mHealth platform aimed at helping healthcare providers improve their use of connected health devices in remote patient monitoring and other mobile health...

Deaconess Health Finds Success in Tailoring Telehealth to Specific Patients

by Eric Wicklund

Remote patient programs don’t just automatically work out. They have to be carefully planned and developed in order to gain traction and produce results. Most importantly, they have to target the...

mHealth Helps Compass Medical Get a Complete View of Patient Care

by Eric Wicklund

A Massachusetts-based health system that saw a more than 50 percent decrease in office visits during the height of the coronavirus pandemic is using mHealth to make sure patients are still getting the...

Stanford Children’s Uses mHealth to Keep Young Patients at Home

by Eric Wicklund

With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic curtailing in-person care, physicians at Stanford Children’s Health are using mHealth devices and telehealth platforms to monitor some of their youngest and...

Chicago Hospital Uses Telehealth to Manage DBS Treatment at Home

by Eric Wicklund

Rush University Medical Center has unveiled a telehealth platform that allows physicians to remotely manage patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) at home. Through the NeuroSphere Virtual...

Digital Onboarding Uses Telehealth to Start Conversations With Patients

by Eric Wicklund

When Jefferson Health received federal funding last year to purchase telehealth tools to help patients access care during the coronavirus pandemic, those in charge of the program realized they...

Telehealth, RPM Programs Can Benefit Greatly From a Nurse’s Perspective

by Eric Wicklund

When the Blessing Health System recently launched a remote patient monitoring program to provide care for newly-discharged COVID-19 patients, officials were quick to point out that the platform would...

Humana Launches Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Chronic Care

by Eric Wicklund

Humana is launching a home healthcare service that includes remote patient monitoring. The Kentucky-based insurer is partnering with DispatchHealth to launch the program in Denver and Tacoma, WA, for...

Tennessee Health System Looks to Use Telehealth, RPM Beyond Covid-19 Care

by Eric Wicklund

A telehealth platform launched last July at West Tennessee Healthcare to monitor COVID-19 patients has proven so good at boosting outcomes and reducing hospitalizations that officials are now planning...

NY Hospital Launching Remote Patient Monitoring Program Through Apple Watch

by Eric Wicklund

A New York hospital is developing a telehealth platform that will enable care providers to manage orthopedic patients at home through the Apple Watch. The Hospital for Special Surgery (HHS), an...

Survey: Make Telehealth a Regular Part of Care Management

by Eric Wicklund

A new survey finds that fear of COVID-19 contamination is keeping patients away from the doctor, and telehealth could ease those fears by turning in-person visits to virtual visits. Roughly a third of...

PCORI Grants Target Telehealth Projects That Support Women

by Eric Wicklund

Two health systems are getting almost $10 million to explore how telehealth can be used to improve care outcomes for women. The grants, from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI),...

Senators Seek CMS Support for Telehealth Services for Expectant Moms

by Eric Wicklund

A bill introduced last week in the Senate aims to establish Medicare and Medicaid coverage for telehealth programs that monitor the health of expectant mothers. The Connected Maternal Online Mothering...

Factoring in Caregivers Adds Value to a Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth programs are so focused on connecting the patient with the provider that they sometimes forget about the other person in the room: the caregiver. And that’s a problem. Family members and friends who care for loved ones...

Global Survey Sees Value of Telehealth in Chronic Care Management

by Eric Wicklund

A global survey of people living with type 1 diabetes has found that three-quarters who moved to a telehealth platform during the coronavirus pandemic would stay on the platform once the emergency has...

Researchers Use mHealth to Track, Assess Parkinson’s Movements

by Eric Wicklund

mHealth researchers are reporting that wearables combined with an AI platform can help healthcare providers track the severity of Parkinson’s disease. As reported in a recent issue of Nature, a...

Telehealth Gives a Pediatric Physical Therapist a New Outlook on Care

by Eric Wicklund

Solo healthcare providers often have a variety of reasons for moving to a telehealth platform, ranging from patient convenience to a better work-life balance. And while Sierra Christensen, PT, DPT,...

NY-NJ Hospitals to Use Smart Clothes in COVID-19 Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

Several hospitals in New Jersey and New York will be using smart clothing in a telehealth program aimed at providing remote care for patients infected with or suspected of having the coronavirus. The...

Telehealth Is ‘The Best Tool’ in the Healthcare Toolbox for FQHCs

by Eric Wicklund

Federally qualified health centers looking to expand their telehealth footprint need to take a closer look at why their patients are having problems accessing healthcare. Transportation issues,...

NCI Grants Help Cancer Care Centers Study Telehealth Effectiveness

by Eric Wicklund

Three prominent cancer care centers have been awarded grants from the National Cancer Institute to examine how telehealth has helped improve care management and coordination during the coronavirus...

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