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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver? Deloitte defines “virtual health” as enabling continuous, connected care via digital and telecommunication technologies.

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#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Patients as Consumers: How Leading Providers are Digitally Transforming Patient Consults | #Engage4Health + #HIMSS18.

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

Beyond the financial ramifications, missed appointments have a real impact on patient health. An Annals of Medicine study noted that patients with frequently missed appointments tend to “experience poorer health outcomes.”

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time. Sleep-as-medicine for all ages. Hygiene and the clean home.

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Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

Health Populi

OMRON’s HeartGuide earned FDA clearance for its blood pressure monitor worn on the consumer’s wrist, featured here in Health Populi in 2018. Withings expanded remote patient monitoring earlier in 2022, and began to collaborate on clinical trial data connections between consumers and researchers.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In addition, Maple provides custom technology for hospitals and clinics seeking to advance how they deliver care. These systems include a tele-hospitalist platform, which has been keeping the doors open at Western Hospital in Alberton, Prince Edward Island, since August 2018.