Telehealth use by physicians jumped from 25 percent in 2018 to almost 80 percent in 2020, while almost 85 percent of psychiatrists connected with the patients via video visit or telephone during the...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is employing remote patient monitoring to increase patient access to diabetes care management and improve health outcomes.
UMMC, one of the...
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs are safe and feasible, and they yield positive health outcomes for acute COVID-19 treatment, according to a Mayo Clinic study.
The midwestern health system...
With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...
The University of California at San Diego Health System is joining the growing ranks of health systems seeking to develop and in many cases commercialize innovative telehealth and mHealth devices and...
As healthcare organizations launch remote patient monitoring and telehealth programs to connect with underserved populations, some health systems are using the opportunity to establish new partnerships...
Remote patient monitoring is an ideal strategy for large health systems looking to create an effective population health program – but it can also be a nice way for small practices and...
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...
Telecommunications companies that pivoted to telehealth during the pandemic are now integrating new services into the platform to support virtual care and remote patient monitoring.
The latest to do...
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...
UnitedHealthcare is launching a new program in Tennessee that will use remote patient monitoring to monitor the health and progress of mothers-to-be.
The insurer is partnering with the Nashville-based...
The Wake Forest School of Medicine is launching five separate projects that will use telehealth and remote patient monitoring in determining how social determinants of health access to care.
A sixth...
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...
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...
A new bill before Congress aims to expand the use of telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital therapeutics and other connected health programs through demonstration projects for Medicare...
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...
While the pandemic saw an across-the-board surge in telehealth adoption, federally qualified health centers often experienced the biggest benefits. Long restrained by restrictive Medicare rules, FQHCs...
Remote patient monitoring may be catching on with health systems across the country, but its path to Medicare reimbursement is still a work in progress.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
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...
While many healthcare providers are just now getting into the remote patient monitoring arena, Ochsner Health has scaled its platform to a national level, and is now monitoring more than 20,000 people...
