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How Virtual Care Is Solving Chronic Disease Challenges

GlobalMed

Systemic weaknesses have been laid painfully bare, such as provider shortages and the fragility of populations with untreated chronic disease. COVID-19 has monopolized the healthcare spotlight, but the patients suffering from cancer, diabetes and heart disease haven’t gone away. Changing Lives with Connected Care.

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Telehealth helps address many key chronic care management challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A long and deeply-reported feature story in The Washington Post on Tuesday put a spotlight on the stark effect that an epidemic of chronic illness is taking on too many millions of Americans. is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors."

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with.

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Vendor notebook: New health assessment AI tools could improve outcomes and reduce costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

TytoCare, Noze and Google, in partnership with Mayo Clinic, aim to tackle some of the challenges of speed to diagnosis and treatment with new AI-powered technologies. FDA clears AI-driven remote wheeze detection by TytoCare TytoCare, a virtual care company, announced today that it has received U.S

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Vendor notebook: New health assessment AI tool could improve outcomes and reduce costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the challenges of speed to diagnosis and treatment with new AI-powered technologies. FDA clears AI-driven remote wheeze detection by TytoCare TytoCare, a virtual care company, announced today that it has received U.S

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knownwell Raises $20M Series A From A16Z to Scale the First Patient-Centered Healthcare Home For Those With Overweight and Obesity

Healthcare IT Today

million and highlights a growing demand for weight-inclusive care companies focusing on whole-person treatment approaches to obesity beyond just short-term approaches like GLP-1 utilization organizations. This brings knownwell’s total funding to $24.5

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Upswing Health combines AI and telehealth to improve MSK care and cut costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Musculoskeletal (MSK) is routinely one of the three most expensive categories of care (along with cardio-metabolic disease and cancer care). Dr. Steve Schutzer, an orthopedic surgeon for 34 years, is working on this pain point as cofounder and COO of Upswing Health, a virtual clinic for MSK/orthopedic problems.