Interviews

Wellstar Uses Remote Patient Monitoring to Create Partnerships With Patients

by Eric Wicklund

Hospitals and health systems are jumping onto the remote patient monitoring bandwagon these days to boost care management. At the Wellstar Health System, administrators are looking beyond the clinical...

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...

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

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...

Maine Home Health Program Uses Telehealth, RPM to Combat Loneliness

by Eric Wicklund

A Maine healthcare provider has found that remote patient monitoring can produce meaningful results that go far beyond clinical outcomes. Androscoggin Home Healthcare & Hospice, based in Lewiston,...

Providers Adapt to Telehealth to Identify Signs of Child Abuse and Neglect

by Eric Wicklund

While telehealth has helped providers with care delivery during the coronavirus pandemic, it has also created challenges for those who’d always focused on in-person treatment. This includes...

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

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...

Telehealth Puts Truckers on the Path to Better Access, Health Outcomes

by Eric Wicklund

A Texas trucking company is using an mHealth app and telehealth platform to significantly improve healthcare access and outcomes for its employees. L&F Distributors, based in McAllen, found that...

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...

Telehealth, mHealth Tools Smooth Out the Rough Edges for Transplant Patients

by Eric Wicklund

For people with chronic health concerns, mHealth apps and telehealth platforms offer an on-demand platform for connecting with care providers and enjoying a better life outside the doctor’s...

Navigating the Benefits - and Challenges - of Telehealth From Home

by Eric Wicklund

With the advent of more sophisticated telemedicine technology and ongoing emergency measures that expand telehealth coverage and access, some small practices and specialty care providers –...

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...

California Hospital Uses mHealth Platform to Automate Contact Tracing

by Eric Wicklund

An mHealth platform that automates contact tracing is helping Methodist Hospital of Southern California reduce COVID-19 exposure, as well as boosting staff morale and restoring public faith in a...

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...

Will Telehealth Payment Parity Be Permanent or a Passing Fancy?

by Eric Wicklund

As federal and state lawmakers look to establish telehealth policy beyond the coronavirus pandemic, much of the conversation will focus on payment parity. That’s the biggest take-away from a...

New Coalition, Programs Focus on Establishing Telehealth Equity

by Eric Wicklund

While telehealth has always been seen as a means of improving access to healthcare for underserved populations, the coronavirus pandemic is proving that the barriers faced by marginalized and minority...

Telehealth for Occupational Health Benefits Both Employee and Employer

by Eric Wicklund

America’s businesses have always run on the mantra that employee health is important to the company’s bottom line, and that lost work time means lost productivity. Now they’re...

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...

Mount Sinai Extends Cancer Care to the Home With New Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

The Mount Sinai Health System is launching a telehealth program aimed at improving care management for cancer patients at home. The New York health system will be sending high-risk oncology patients...

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