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Using Hospital-At-Home Services to Lower Readmissions, Increase Capacity

by Anuja Vaidya

As the Omicron variant drove COVID-19 case counts up, hospitals found themselves facing a familiar problem: caring for patients as inpatient capacity grew slim. Many health facilities relied on systems set up during earlier stages of the...

Amazon to Expand Healthcare Services to New Cities, Customers  

by Anuja Vaidya

Technology giant Amazon is making healthcare moves once again. The company has signed deals with Silicon Labs, TrueBlue, and Whole Foods Market to offer Amazon Care to their employees across the...

NJ Health System Launches Hospital-at-Home Program

by Anuja Vaidya

Hackensack Meridian Health has established a hospital-at-home program at JFK University Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. The program will enable the hospital to provide acute care for Medicare...

OSU Wexner Medical Center to Launch In-Home Heart Failure Care Program

by Anuja Vaidya

Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is working with health technology company WellSky to implement an at-home heart failure program that aims to reduce readmissions for this...

Mayo, Kaiser Join $110M Funding Round for Hospital-at-Home Company

by Anuja Vaidya

Medically Home, a Boston-based company that operates acute care-at-home programs, has raised $110 million in a new funding round, which includes investments from the likes of Mayo Clinic and Kaiser...

UCI Health, DispatchHealth Partner to Launch At-Home Care Program

by Anuja Vaidya

Orange, California-based UCI Health is entering the home health arena through a new partnership with at-home care provider DispatchHealth. Per the partnership, UCI Health will use DispatchHealth's...

Jefferson Health, BAYADA to Establish Home Health Joint Venture

by Anuja Vaidya

Jefferson Health is partnering with BAYADA Home Health Care to launch a joint venture focused on providing care in patients' homes. Called Jefferson Health at Home, the joint venture will leverage...

Chicago Provider Adds Virtual Medical Exams to Telehealth Program

by Victoria Bailey

NorthShore University HealthSystem has partnered with a telehealth company to integrate virtual medical examinations into its current telehealth program. NorthShore serves residents across the Chicago...

Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Launch Coalition to Support Home-Based Telehealth, RPM

by Eric Wicklund

Several large health systems have formed a coalition to support strategies that use telehealth and remote patient monitoring to provide acute care for patients at home. The Advanced Care at Home...

Can Remote Patient Monitoring Improve Post-Surgical Care and Recovery?

by Eric Wicklund

A recent study conducted at several Canadian hospitals finds that remote patient monitoring can be used to help patients recover at home after non-elective surgery. The study, led by researchers at...

Report Cites Success of VA’s COVID-19 Remote Patient Monitoring Program

by Eric Wicklund

A new report finds that the Department of Veterans Affairs used remote patient monitoring to provide care for more than 23,500 veterans during the height of the pandemic, interacting with thousands of...

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

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...

Remote Patient Monitoring Program Shines in Treating COVID-19

by Victoria Bailey

Remote patient monitoring for patients with COVID-19 proved to be effective in preventing hospital admissions and improving recovery from the virus, according to a Kaiser Permanente study. The...

New Bill Would Expand Home Health Options, Including Remote Patient Monitoring, for Seniors

by Eric Wicklund

Home healthcare providers are divided over a bill introduced this week in the Senate that would expand Medicare coverage for seniors choosing home-based services, including telehealth and remote...

Merck, Evidation Eye Remote Patient Monitoring for Alzheimer’s Care

by Eric Wicklund

Merck is partnering with a digital health company to launch a remote patient monitoring program aimed at people living with Alzheimer’s Disease. The pharma giant and California-based Evidation...

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

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...

PA Payer Supports Innovative Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring Programs

by Eric Wicklund

Independence Blue Cross is issuing grants to support the expansion of remote patient monitoring and telehealth programs developed by Penn Medicine. The Philadelphia-based payer is funding three...

Remote Patient Monitoring Promotes Chronic Care Management, Home Health

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Chronic care management and home health initiatives can drive down care costs and promote better patient outcomes. A key tool in these programs—remote patient monitoring—is helping one...

California Provider Sees Telehealth as an Integral Part of PACE Programs

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...

Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic to Expand Home-Based Connected Health Program

by Eric Wicklund

Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic are planning to expand a relatively new care model that combines telehealth, mHealth and in-person visits to treat acute care patients in their own homes rather...

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