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UMass Memorial Health proves RPM virtual sitting is as effective as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The health system's experienced caregivers include experts in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology, children and women's services, heart and vascular care, neurology, pulmonology and surgery. For years, UMass Memorial Health has leveraged technology as a means of augmenting in-person care at the bedside. THE PROBLEM.

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Measurement-based care in behavioural health: What exactly is it and will it be important in 2024?

Lloyd Price

Email , lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk , HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. 2006: Trivedi formalizes the MBC concept. Telehealth and Remote Monitoring: Expanding telehealth services can make MBC more accessible to geographically dispersed populations.

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AI-powered RPM can help address the rural neonatal care crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

hospitals rose 45% from 2006 to 2015. Add to that the fact that the United States still has one of the highest maternal death rates among the world's developed nations, and this becomes an overlooked crisis that needs solutions – one that may be getting worse, given the Health Affairs study.

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Innovative offerings from 2020 (virtual) HIMSS

Aging in Place Technology Watch

CEO (and American Well founder) Dr. Roy Schoenberg noted that the pioneering telehealth company, founded in 2006, rebranded itself on March 9 as Amwell. As the newly published vision states: “No longer is telehealth merely a virtual urgent care service. J2Global – from the telehealth sublime to the reality of fax.

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Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring – Not for the Faint-of-Heart (Pun Intended)

Healthcare IT Today

This number is based on reimbursement code criteria, which enable reimbursements to healthcare clinics for remote (telehealth) BP monitoring only when a sufficient number of self-measured BP measurements per month are recorded by patients and monitored by physicians [ 29 ].