Population Health Management

Exploring RPM Benefits & Barriers, From Population Health to Payment

June 29, 2023 - With healthcare moving increasingly outside the four walls of the hospital, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools are becoming indispensable. How hospitals employ these tools are diverse, from chronic disease management to providing hospital-level acute care at home. But implementing and scaling RPM solutions can be complex, particularly in the current reimbursement and regulatory...


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Project ECHO Effectively Educates Providers in Managing Pediatric Pain

by Mark Melchionna

A study published in BMC Medical Education found that an online education model called Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO) effectively trained healthcare providers (HCPs)...

Cleveland Clinic Adding 2nd Mobile Unit to School Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

The Cleveland Clinic is launching a second mobile health vehicle equipped with telehealth and mHealth tools to help students in northeast Ohio access care at their schools. Using a $2 million donation...

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...

NASA’s New mHealth Program Tracks Employee Health Through Wearables

by Eric Wicklund

NASA is launching an mHealth program to help its employees – including astronauts – identify and treat illnesses like COVID-19 as quickly as possible. The organization is giving 1,000...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock, West Health Launch Geriatric Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is launching a telehealth program to provide specialized telehealth services for elderly patients and training for care providers at four northern New England...

NY Healthcare Program Adds Telehealth Services for PACE Participants

by Eric Wicklund

A healthcare service run by the Archdiocese of New York is launching a home telehealth platform for seniors that coordinates care through their television. ArchCare, which offers services for seniors,...

UAB Launches mHealth Study to Boost Vaccine Acceptance Among Teens

by Eric Wicklund

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are launching a study to determine if mHealth messaging can improve vaccination rates among rural adolescents. The program, funded by a $300,000...

AMA Foundation Supports Telehealth Initiative in Chicago’s West Side

by Eric Wicklund

The American Medical Association Foundation is donating $100,000 to a Chicago organization that uses telehealth to help underserved residents monitor hypertension. The donation to West Side United is...

California Gives Telehealth a Try with Community Paramedicine Legislation

by Eric Wicklund

California is now allowing local EMS providers to develop community paramedicine programs, which could use telehealth or mHealth tools to triage 911 calls at home and divert patients from hospital ERs...

Oakland Launches Telehealth Program for Black Prenatal, Postpartum Care

by Eric Wicklund

Public and population health officials in Oakland are using a telehealth platform to improve prenatal and postpartum care management for Black residents. The BElovedBIRTH Black Centering program,...

COVID-19 Concerns Add Value to School-Based Telehealth Programs

by Eric Wicklund

School may not be in session because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t mean school-based telehealth programs are shuttered. In many cases, they’re busier than ever. While...

Senators Target Telehealth Access for Farmers, Loggers and Fishermen

by Eric Wicklund

Lawmakers are looking to extend telehealth into rural parts of America to improve access for people in need of mental health services. A group of Senators last week introduced the Home-Based...

VA Expands Telehealth Services For Veterans Living With Cancer

by Eric Wicklund

The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its telehealth platform to give veterans access to precision cancer care and genetic counseling no matter where they live. The VA announced last week...

HHS, CMS Offer More Support for COVID-19 Telehealth Adoption, Expansion

by Eric Wicklund

Federal authorities are announcing more support – in grants and changes to Medicare reimbursement - for health systems looking to implement or expand telehealth during the coronavirus...

Community Health Centers Need a Telehealth Strategy, Resources to Survive

by Eric Wicklund

Community health centers will need a good grasp of telehealth to survive both the coronavirus pandemic and what lies beyond. That’s the take-away from a new article in Health Affairs, which...

HHS Awards $15M to Tribal Organizations for COVID-19 Telehealth Expansion

by Eric Wicklund

The Health and Human Services Department has awarded $15 million to help dozens of Native American Tribes and organizations expand telehealth services to address the coronavirus pandemic. The awards,...

Surveys Suggest Seniors Aren’t Using Telehealth During COVID-19 Crisis

by Eric Wicklund

Despite a nationwide shift to telehealth to replace most in-person visits during the coronavirus pandemic, seniors aren’t using connected health platforms to access care. In a survey of roughly...

For One Georgia Health System, Telehealth is Definitely Here to Stay

by Eric Wicklund

A Georgia health system is planning for the future after converting its direct-to-consumer telehealth platform into a COVID-19 screening service. The Augusta University Health System had intended to...

Maryland Launches mHealth Program to Screen, Treat COVID-19 Patients at Home

by Eric Wicklund

Maryland’s Department of Health has launched a telehealth program aimed at bringing COVID-19 screening and care into the homes of the state’s vulnerable populations. With the state seeing...

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