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Telemedicine Today (#tday): July 2015

American Well

Healthcare providers can pay for just the SaaS platform or buy custom hospital carts that let on-site nurses plug patient-monitoring instruments (like compatible examination cameras and stethoscopes) into the carts, which send readings in real time to distant health practitioners. Telemedicine Magazine.

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Telehealth Research Used to Support New Policy Initiatives for Expansion

care innovations

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Fortunately, it has become easier in recent years, with Medicare now offering reimbursements for CCM services. The program is offered through Medicare and is available to beneficiaries who have been diagnosed with one of these chronic conditions and who meet certain other criteria. registered nurses, etc.)

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Payer, provider trends to watch in 2019

Henry Kotula

At Riverside Health System, a rural health network in Newport News, Virginia, a long-term telebehavioral health initiative has improved coordinated care among psychiatrists and clinical social workers, as well as replaced a chunk of services offered at the system’s nursing homes. Medicare Advantage still lucrative, popular.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Advocate was also named a top 10 health system for diversity and recognized as a leader in LGBT healthcare equality. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).