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New mHealth Study Gives Kids a Chance to Learn From Video Games

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Magellan Health is launching a new study to determine how mHealth games can help children with mental health concerns. The Arizona-based managed care company’s behavioral and specialty health...

Humana Launches Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Chronic Care

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Humana is launching a home healthcare service that includes remote patient monitoring. The Kentucky-based insurer is partnering with DispatchHealth to launch the program in Denver and Tacoma, WA, for...

Telehealth, Licensure Portability Featured in New Disaster Preparedness Plan

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A proposed national strategy for preparing for the next pandemic or disaster includes increased access to and coverage of telehealth and a provider licensure plan. Those ideas are contained in a study...

California Eyes Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Policy for Medicaid Patients

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California’s Department of Health Care Services is planning an aggressive post-COVID-19 telehealth policy for the state’s Medicaid program. In a 14-page report issued this week, the DHCS...

Tennessee Health System Looks to Use Telehealth, RPM Beyond Covid-19 Care

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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...

Maryland Lawmakers Take on Telehealth Expansion, Broadband Access

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Maryland lawmakers are launching two separate efforts to expand telehealth access in their state beyond the coronavirus pandemic. The Legislature is moving forward with a bill aimed at permanently...

Global Study Using RPM, mHealth to Treat COVID-19 Patients at Home

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Researchers in Arizona are launching a global study that aims to use mHealth wearables and apps, AI bots and a telehealth platform to monitor and treat COVID-19 patients at home, thereby reducing...

New Project Trains mHealth on Medication Adherence for Transplant Patients

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Researchers at three health systems will soon be launching a telehealth study to determine whether transplant patients can improve their medication management through an mHealth app. Johns Hopkins...

14 Telehealth Projects to Get FCC Connected Care Pilot Program Funding

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Some of the largest telehealth programs in the country are among 14 selected for the first round of grants from the Federal Communications Commission’s Connected Care Pilot Program. The...

CMS Clarifies 2021 PFS Reimbursements for Remote Patient Monitoring

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made corrections to the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, opening the door to improved reimbursement for remote patient monitoring. In a January 19...

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

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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...

PA Health System Uses College Students to Support New Telehealth Program

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With its nursing corps stretched thin, a Pennsylvania health system is using college students to support its new in-patient telehealth program. The St. Luke’s University Health Network has hired...

OSF Healthcare Develops Telehealth Protocols for Sepsis Treatment

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OSF Healthcare and Northwestern University have developed a protocol for using telehealth to treat patients with sepsis in rural hospitals. Using a four-year, $750,000 grant from the Agency for...

ATA, DiMe Launch Initiative to Support Virtual-First Telehealth Programs

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A new partnership among telehealth and digital health organizations aims to create a framework for healthcare providers developing “virtual first” programs. The IMPACT (vIrtual-first...

Apple, Biogen to Use mHealth Wearables to Identify Cognitive Impairment

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Apple is partnering with biotech company Biogen on a new research study that will test the value of mHealth wearables in detecting early signs of cognitive impairment. The multi-year study, to be...

DoD Funds Study For Early COVID-19 Symptom Detection Wearable

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Global health technology leader Royal Philips and continuous health monitoring company BioIntelliSense will receive nearly $2.8 million from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to validate...

Telehealth Study Touts Benefits of RPM for Joint Replacement Rehabilitation

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A telehealth platform that includes mHealth wearables and a text messaging platform helped healthcare providers at Penn Medicine reduce rehospitalizations by 75 percent among patients who’d had...

Brigham and Women’s Sees Telehealth Success With Home Hospital Program

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Dozens of health systems across the country are embracing a program that uses telehealth and mHealth to provide care at home for patients who would otherwise be hospitalized. Centers for Medicare...

Remote Patient Monitoring Programs Remain in Infancy Stages

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Many remote patient monitoring programs aim to prevent health emergencies for patients with chronic conditions, but these programs tend to still be in the early stages of development, according to the...

Analyzing the Challenges and Benefits of an Inpatient Telehealth Platform

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A robust in-patient telehealth platform can save a health system millions of dollars, reduce workload stresses for care providers and, most importantly, improve care outcomes. That’s the...

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