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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

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With 2019 now upon us, please join us in taking a look back at the most momentous remote care stories from 2018, as reported here at the Care Innovations blog. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Remote therapeutic monitoring is reimbursable – here's what you need to know

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Former Amazon medical officer examines Surgeon General's clinician burnout warning

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer and cofounder at Biofourmis, a vendor of personalized, predictive health IT – who prior to that served as Amazon’s medical officer who led the launch of Halo – sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the crisis and potential solutions.

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The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It’s Impact on the World of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. What are the challenges to implementing an Acute Hospital Care at Home program? Implementing any new initiative involves challenges.

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Patient monitoring is evolving with artificial intelligence, sensors, smart technology, more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"To extract actionable information from this data, healthcare providers are turning to big data analytics and other analysis solutions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE LARGER TREND. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com. Special Report:

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AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.