A new bill before Congress aims to improve Medicare coverage for home health services delivered via telehealth during a public health emergency.
The Home Health Emergency Access to Telehealth (HEAT)...
A Delaware health system has customized an Amazon Alexa mHealth app to give patients personalized care management information at home.
Wilmington-based ChristianaCare announced this week that the Home...
Lawmakers are now trying to integrate COVID-19 testing with a telehealth visit for seniors and others at risk of contracting the virus.
The Safe Testing at Residence Telehealth (START) Act of 2020,...
A telehealth platform that enables providers to remotely monitor diabetic foot ulcers of patients at home helped eliminate major amputations and halve hospital admissions, according to a recent study...
Federal officials have unveiled a new treatment model for patients living with kidney disease that could boost interest in telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs.
The Centers for Medicare...
A Massachusetts health plan is launching a new telehealth platform to help family caregivers get the help they need to care for loved ones at home.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is partnering with...
Engineers at Purdue University have developed an mHealth wearable that uses ozone to improve wound care at home.
The connected health platform consists of a disposable, gas-permeable patch that covers...
The federal government is clarifying how it regulates remote patient monitoring, with changes that could significantly affect – and potentially restrict - how care providers use telehealth and...
With Congress and the government still haggling over how to extend telehealth coverage beyond the coronavirus pandemic, a group of Senators is pushing for additional flexibilities for home health care...
The coronavirus pandemic is helping to shine the spotlight on the use of telehealth and mHealth to improve care coordination in places ranging from a patient’s home to an accident scene.
With...
Federal officials are throwing support behind telehealth and mHealth platform that would help providers extend dialysis treatment to the home.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare &...
With the world stuck in the midst of a pandemic, health systems are looking to telehealth to shift the balance of care out of the hospital or clinic and into the home.
That strategy is shining a spotlight on the home health care industry,...
The nation’s primary accreditation body for telehealth programs is adding remote patient monitoring to the roster.
The Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) announced this week that...
Colorado lawmakers have quickly approved a bill that will permanently expand telehealth coverage and access in the state.
Governor Jared Polis is scheduled today to sign into law SB 212, which was...
Federal regulators are moving to permanently expand telehealth coverage for home health care services.
In a June 25 notice, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a proposed rule to...
In what may have been the first procedure of its kind, a California physician recently used a telehealth platform to debride a patient’s wound with maggots, thereby saving the patient’s...
Hospice providers are asking that Medicare continue to cover telehealth services beyond the current coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter sent last week to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
New York state officials are partnering with a home healthcare services provider to extend telehealth care to public housing residents facing access issues during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Governor...
Many healthcare providers are expanding their telehealth services during the Coronavirus epidemic, thanks in large part to relaxed guidelines for Medicare coverage. But physical and occupational...
Nearly two-thirds of the nation’s caregivers are using at least one mHealth or telehealth tool to manage their caregiving responsibilities, and roughly 40 percent are looking for more digital...
