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April 2019 Telemedicine News

Enzyme Health

mHealth App for Juvenile Arthritis Patients Shows Promise for Youth Patient-Doctor Relationships. A new Swedish-developed mHealth app called Genia is showing promise at the University of Minnesota for fostering communication between juvenile arthritis patients and their care providers.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage plans telemarket home nurse visits which provide an opportunity to assess risk scores , enabling them to boost insurer reimbursements from Medicare based on that assessment, independent of whether the insured has already been assessed at the doctor’s office. With persuasion? That’s 5 percent! Just saying.

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Bringing Telehealth to the Rehabilitation Industry

Advanced Medical Reviews

Mobile health (mHealth) : involves healthcare services, education and public health notifications being delivered over cell phones, tablets and other electronic devices. Telehealth treatments in regards to physical therapy are currently not covered by Medicare. Occupational Therapy. Reducing travel time.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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#WWBR Week of September 22, 2014

Chilmark Research

On a slightly different note, Brian shares a very important IOM article addressing one of those topics people rarely talk about – end of life planning. Enjoy the articles and have a great weekend! Medicare’s Pioneer program down to 19 ACOs after three more exit. And plenty of other great reading too.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

As outlined in a May 23 rd Becker’s Hospital Review article , several sources point to a continued shortage. They are primarily being developed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) which has driven payment policy (including APMs) in the two big government healthcare programs: Medicaid and Medicare.

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Finally, Some Concrete Use Cases for Telehealth

Chilmark Research

The top-fold placement of the story was indeed nice, as was the accompanying interview suggesting that technology in general can improve population health , but the article wasn’t exactly news to the healthcare industry. To treat Type 2 diabetes, communication and counseling work well, but RPM does not. This makes sense.