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How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

However, the current program relies heavily on manual processes and in-person care, making it operationally challenging to expand as it requires patients be visited at least twice daily in person by a paramedic, and once daily, either in person or virtually, by both a registered nurse and a physician or advanced practice practitioner.

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Implementing Digital Strategies Helps Re-define the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 In addition, 92 percent of telehealth visits occurred in beneficiaries’ homes, which generally wasn’t permitted before the pandemic.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

economy by 2026. The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.

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