Telehealth Interviews

Island Health Expands Its Remote Patient Monitoring Strategy

by Eric Wicklund

Because the remote patient monitoring landscape is so new and innovative, healthcare providers are approaching the space with a wide range of strategies. On Canada’s Pacific coast, one health system has launched a program that aims to...

Telehealth Access to Mental Health Specialists Can Be a ‘Game-Changer’ in the ED

by Eric Wicklund

Health systems struggling to address a surge in mental health cases are using telehealth to connect patients to care providers. That’s especially true in emergency departments, where patients needing mental health treatment may wait...

MetroHealth’s Institute for HOPE Takes Connected Health to a New Level

by Eric Wicklund

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 that target barriers to access. One...

Remote Patient Monitoring Offers More Than Just Population Health Benefits

by Eric Wicklund

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 independent doctors to forge better care...

Using Telehealth as a Platform to Tackle Social Barriers to Progress

by Eric Wicklund

While the pandemic prompted an unprecedented surge in telehealth to address healthcare needs, it also highlighted the gap between those who can access care and those who can’t. Now health systems, community health organizations,...

A California FQHC Plots its Path to Telehealth and RPM Sustainability

by Eric Wicklund

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 took advantage of COVID-19 emergency...

CMS Expands Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage in Proposed 2022 PFS

by Eric Wicklund

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 Services has included a new category of CPT...

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 at home for patients who would otherwise...

Ochsner Health Takes Remote Patient Monitoring to a National Level

by Eric Wicklund

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 in health plans across the country. And...

Second Opinions Via Telehealth Have Value to Patients and Providers

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth is making the second opinion much more meaningful. While patients and healthcare providers have been using connected health for years to both research and support diagnoses and treatment plans, the platform has gained value over...

Uncertain Telehealth Laws Keep Substance Abuse Care Providers on Their Toes

by Eric Wicklund

Telehealth adoption has surged during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly in treatments for people dealing with substance abuse issues. And that trend will likely continue, as providers look for more and better ways to manage care for a...

Banner Health Eyes Connected Health Strategy With Digital Health Formulary

by Eric Wicklund

As providers become more comfortable with prescribing connected health services, healthcare organizations are creating their own formularies and giving their doctors a menu of preferred mHealth apps, devices and solutions. The latest to do...

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 academic medical center succeed in these...

Asynchronous Telehealth Can Extend Primary Care at Community Health Networks

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Store-and-forward or asynchronous telehealth often stays out of the headlines, but one community health network is using the telehealth modality to extend primary care services for their patients. Experts say the technology is best fit for...

Is the Time Right for Skilled Nursing Facilities to Embrace Telehealth?

by Eric Wicklund

Two large skilled nursing facilities will soon be testing the post-COVID-19 theory that telehealth is here to stay. Southview Acres Health Care Center in St. Paul, MN, and Affinity Healthcare Center in Paramount, CA, will be piloting a...

Q&A: How a Brooklyn Clinic Developed Its Virtual Care Strategy

by Eric Wicklund

As the nation eases itself out of the pandemic, healthcare providers are adjusting to a new reality that mixes in-person care with telehealth. Many are approaching these hybrid healthcare models with a bit of trepidation, struggling to...

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 benefits of RPM and focusing on...

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 homes. While the focus of PACE programs...

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 now seeing interest from care providers...

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, has been using telehealth and mHealth...

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