Remote Patient Monitoring

U of Maryland Medical School to Establish Virtual Reality Care Center

by Mark Melchionna

Using $4.75 million in financial support from the National Science Foundation, the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) is working to create the Center for Medical Innovations in Extended...

Massachusetts to Offer Free Virtual Access to COVID-19 Treatment

by Mark Melchionna

Massachusetts residents are gaining access to a free COVID-19 telehealth treatment program that will focus on reviewing patient symptoms and determining if they are eligible to take Paxlovid. The...

UC Davis Health, Houston Methodist Ink RPM Partnerships

by Mark Melchionna

UC Davis Health and Houston Methodist have engaged in new collaborations with BioIntelliSense to enhance remote care delivery, develop hospital-to-home monitoring services, and deploy clinical...

NY Health System Strikes Partnership to Provide Remote Physical Exams

by Mark Melchionna

A new partnership between Rochester Regional Health and TytoCare will make the company's artificial intelligence-powered tools available to the health system's clinicians, enabling them to...

Digital Health Interventions Reduced Heart Failure Mortality

by Mark Melchionna

Research published in the International Journal of Cardiology found that all-cause and cardiovascular deaths decreased after implementing various digital health interventions (DHI), including...

New Remote Patient Monitoring Partnership Aims to Enhance Diabetes Care

by Mark Melchionna

UBMD Pediatrics has entered into a collaboration with Cecelia Health to enhance care for children with type 1 diabetes by providing remote patient monitoring. UBMD Pediatrics is a medical group that...

How Mayo, Geisinger, IU Health Train Their At-Home Care Providers

by Anuja Vaidya

At-home care programs have proliferated across the country in recent years, primarily driven by the regulatory flexibilities and the in-person care constraints that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Deploying these programs require...

Pulse Oximeters Offer No Added Benefits for Remote COVID-19 Monitoring

by Mark Melchionna

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania found that programs using pulse oximeters to monitor patients with COVID-19 at home produced similar benefits to...

57% of Medical Practices Use Remote Physiologic Monitoring

by Anuja Vaidya

A little over half (57 percent) of US medical practices currently use remote physiologic monitoring (RPM), according to new survey results. Commissioned by Rhythm Management Group and conducted by...

Illinois Health System to Offer Hospital-at-Home Care

by Mark Melchionna

Blessing Health System in Quincy, Illinois, plans on creating a hospital-at-home program that will provide acute care in the patient's home with the help of health technology company...

Remote Patient Monitoring Program Effective in Treating COVID-19

by Mark Melchionna

To effectively monitor and treat COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics developed a home monitoring program that helped keep a majority of patients out of...

Remote Blood Oxygen Monitoring Helped Detect COVID-19 Deterioration

by Mark Melchionna

As providers continue to uncover methods of caring for COVID-19 patients, recent research published in Lancet Digital Health shows that blood oxygen monitors, or pulse oximeters, helped identify health...

How a Not-So-New Concept Buoyed Mayo, Advocate Aurora Amid a Crisis

by Anuja Vaidya

Virtual care has helped health systems solve a myriad of problems during surges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did digital healthcare help organizations care for patients outside their hospitals, but it also helped enhance critical...

Home-Based Remote Patient Monitoring Yields Highly Accurate BP Readings

by Mark Melchionna

Home-based blood pressure (BP) measurements were more reliable and accurate than those taken in clinics or kiosks, a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found.  The study...

Incorporating a Human Element Into RPM Services

by Anuja Vaidya

Over the past two years, remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs have increased, with health systems using the care modality for various clinical activities, including tracking chronic disease patient outcomes. Both providers and...

Telehealth-Enabled Social Services Helped Boost Patient Satisfaction

by Mark Melchionna

Using a tablet to connect patients virtually with social workers during primary care visits resulted in high satisfaction levels, a Mayo Clinic study revealed. According to the researchers, 20 percent...

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...

Highmark Launches Virtual Type 2 Diabetes Care Program

by Anuja Vaidya

Highmark Health has launched a virtual care program for adults with type 2 diabetes that includes personalized care management, remote patient monitoring, and telehealth. Dubbed Well360 Diabetes...

Tennessee Hospital Launches At-Home Hospital Program

by Mark Melchionna

To combat issues surrounding resource availability within hospitals and patient comfort levels, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has unveiled an at-home hospital program that enables clinicians to...

Black Cardiovascular Disease Patients Prefer Text-Based BP Monitoring

by Mark Melchionna

Black patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) prefer recording blood pressure (BP) via a text-based program rather than an online patient portal, according to a study published in JAMA Network...

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