Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

Hospital patients with conditions like pneumonia, dehydration and heart failure have been shown to experience shorter recovery times with fewer complications when they receive more cost-effective healthcare at home – and many health systems have been preparing for this future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. You contend CMS's Acute Hospital Care at Home program needs scalability to survive. Please elaborate.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 22, 2024

The Biden administration will finalize a controversial nursing home staffing rule today that includes the more stringent requirements floated in last September’s proposal, Vice President Kamala Har | Later today the federal government will finalize the more stringent version of the Nursing Home Minimum Staffing rule floated last year, Vice President (..)

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Telehealth is the sub-set of delivery methods and tools used to deliver health care services.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 23, 2024

Medicaid managed care plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will be subject to new wait time standards and quality ratings requirements, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S | CMS defended implementing stronger rules over nursing home staffing as well as explained its thoughts behind Medicaid access and managed care rules.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2022

While inflation and financial stress is depressing consumer demand for many purchases the “legacy of COVID-19” is having lost-lasting impacts on how people see their homes — especially as sites for health and wellness. GfK gives us timely guidance in this report to do so. As the company says, #CareCounts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. We interviewed Gaines to get a better understanding of what this switch entails and talk in-depth on hospital-at-home. What are the challenges for effective hospital-at-home coordination?

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Mobi Health News

JULY 18, 2023

The partnership allows cancer patients to access coordinated in-home care that includes their cancer care team and the two companies.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The partnership marks another move in home care for the retail giant, which has made several acquisitions in the space over the past few years.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

One such new area is healthcare at home. So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

In this Health Populi post, I’ll discuss the research group’s assessment of CPG shifts of consumer packaged goods through my lens on health/care, everywhere — especially, in this case, the home. IRI has identified eight key CPG shifts forecasted to persist in 2023…these include, Increased at-home consumption.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 15, 2023

The healthcare system will utilize DispatchHealth's Acute Care, Bridge Care and ED-to-home programs for its patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

And it is thanks to those advantages and benefits that healthcare at home is continuing, even as there are still challenges to work on and in-person operations return. So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

The retail giant's customers can purchase Simple HealthKit's at-home tests for sexual wellness, diabetes detection and respiratory health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

Most people dealing with chronic conditions, and those who care for them, believe that “home is where the health is,” according to a survey about the “21st century house call” from CareMore Health. The post Home Is Where the Health Is, CareMore Health (And Most People) Believe appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A home health agency in Missouri recently announced it is shutting down due to the impact of | Home healthcare providers are experiencing severe payment cuts along with challenges to retain nurses and therapists, putting healthcare services at home in jeopardy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2021

consumers have made significant investments into their homes for working, educating students, cooking, and working out. McKinsey found that people who have been vaccinated have a higher intent-to-spend, especially for restaurants, in-person services (like hair salons), and out-of-home entertainment– movies, concerts.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The NHS in England has announced that it is piloting home testing for coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the UK went up to 13 on Sunday (23 February). The new approach means that patients will no longer have to go to NHS sites to get tested, with nurses, paramedics and other staff visiting them in their own homes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 24, 2024

The Food & Drug Administration’s device center launched an initiative to promote at-home medical device development with a focus on health equity in at-home care. Medical devices and other innovations that make acute and on-going at-home clinical management possible are receiving a boost in attention from FDA.

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MAY 18, 2023

The offering will supplement Included Health's online medical care with DispatchHealth's on-demand, at-home urgent care services.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 22, 2024

Simple HealthKit is bringing chronic condition diagnostics to front porches across the country via a new partnership with Amazon. | Consumers can now buy Simple HealthKit’s at-home tests for diabetes (HbA1c), respiratory wellness and sexual wellness and have it shipped to their door through Amazon.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

The convergence of basic needs like hygiene and safety, financial and health security, and living-working-learning-and-cooking-at-home has turbocharged a migration of more acute care delivered at home. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shveta Mangal, CEO at VitaWerks In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, the concept of home as an “extension of care” is gaining traction, ushering in a new era of patient-centered support. AI has emerged as a game-changer in the realm of home health care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Despite spending more time at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few people believe they live in a “healthy home.” adults in late July 2020, gauging consumers’ interest in personal health and well-being and home technologies’ potential impacts on mental and physical health. One in two U.S.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 18, 2022

The male and female hormone tests are the first product in the company's Kind at Home consumer products division.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The company’s Seer Home device allows for potential epilepsy diagnosis through at-home data collection.

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MARCH 8, 2024

The home has emerged as a fundamental care setting within the broader healthcare continuum, challenging the notion that care concludes at the hospital exit. To fully integrate the home into the continuum of care, our focus must be on innovative care models enabled by technology.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 24, 2024

The company will work with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to enable providers to prescribe food interventions, much like traditional medications, right to patients' homes. Grocery delivery company Instacart notched another partnership with a care provider as it extends its reach into healthcare. |

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Israeli company's take-home kit includes a continuous vitals monitor, a patient app and a cloud-based patient-management system.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 30, 2023

Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes. Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes.

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DigitalHealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Leading home healthcare provider Cera has announced the successful delivery of 7.5m home care visits this winter, saving the NHS an estimated £100m.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement dmuoio Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:08

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 13, 2024

Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound. |

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a rule Wednesday that increases the 2024 home health payments by 0.8%, or $140 million. | CMS' new proposed rule will increase home health payments by 0.8%, or $140M, among other changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2024

Advanced algorithms for noninvasive diagnosis are meant to be an alternative to conventional methods, enabling treatment in home and outpatient settings that previously could only be done in the hospital. It's the first medical device to enable noninvasive diagnosis of heart failure within clinical or home healthcare environments.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Laura Templeton , Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at Compassus There’s no denying that increased delivery of patient care in the home was accelerated by the pandemic. The upward trend continues today, driven by the growth of our aging population and the continued adoption of technology.

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