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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

Lloyd Price

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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The Value-Based Care Revolution Will Stall Without Health Tech

Connected Health Initiative

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. Congress should modernize privacy and security frameworks to support the use of digital health tools in value-based care scenarios widely.

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The Value-Based Care Revolution Will Stall Without Health Tech

Connected Health Initiative

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. While Apple product purchases in 2015 were. purchased by women.

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Ochsner Health System’s Digital Medicine Program Success

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Ochsner O Bar Supports Patient's Digital Health needs In 2015, Ochsner Health launched its first Digital Medicine Program for Hypertension. There’s a technology specialist behind the counter to answer questions and give app demonstrations. Think genius bar to support patient health technology).

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

According to a 2015 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, healthcare practices that billed CPT code 99490 for CCM services provided by nonphysician healthcare practitioners (i.e., Over the 18-month study period, the CCM program lowered expenses by $74 per beneficiary per month (PBPM). registered nurses, etc.) DrKumo Inc.,

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Keep Track of Your Patients’ Weight and BMI with This Remote Patient Monitoring Weight Scale

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

From hospitals, to nursing homes, to individual homes, these devices offer efficient and accurate methods for tracking the progress of patient health. A 2015 study has found that intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) can reduce the incidence of diabetes by 58% when accompanied by effective weight management measures.