care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. Specifically, the new code allows providers to bill the CMS for time spent collecting and interpreting remotely generated health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is a guest article by Oakkar Oakkar, Co-Founder and CEO at Keona Health Imagine a tool that puts your health information right at your fingertips. Another study in 2018 suggested something more personal. They’re concerned about who might see their data and how it could be used.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2023

PillPack: In 2018, Amazon acquired PillPack, an online pharmacy that specializes in delivering medications to customers' homes. Alexa can provide health information, schedule appointments, and connect users to healthcare providers through voice commands.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” Self-care in the pandemic drove virtual health care visits up across generations due to elective procedures and primary care shifting to telehealth platforms, and some consumers’ concerns about heading back to brick-and-mortar health care settings for in-person high-touch care.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

If you were to ask someone on the street what they consider the most impactful digital health innovation over the last five years, there’s a good chance their response would be, “telemedicine”. Oddly, even with its place in the general public’s lexicon, telemedicine utilization is still rather low. rubs temples in exasperation*.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted widespread use of real-world data (1). Desperate for medical insights without delay, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies turned to health information captured through real-world data sources. 2018 Jun; 30(3): 277–284. 43, 1–12 (2018). 4 Reynolds P.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They provide health measures of patients and transmit them back to providers – or in some cases are reported back to providers – to facilitate healthcare decisions from afar. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine. Another product is called the eCareCompanion patient application.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

News Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Small practices were less likely to use the technology than larger offices or health systems, though the ONC data saw rural and urban physicians adapting telehealth at similar rates.

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