DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Second, the healthcare industry has unique compliance requirements, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in the United States, which sets standards for the protection of electronic healthcare information. Some examples include: Implementing strong and unique passwords for all systems and devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. For example, as a patient walks into the clinic, a physician notices his gait.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated in telehealth and are keen on closing telehealth gap.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 1, 2023

Examples of Successful RPM Implementations Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has been successfully implemented in various healthcare settings to improve patient care and health outcomes. These are just a few examples of the many successful RPM implementations that have been implemented in healthcare.

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Health Populi

JULY 31, 2023

That may be because confidence in that particular institution was already low so had less opportunity to decline, based on for example the annual Gallup poll on honesty and ethics in professions discussed most recently here in Health Populi ]. Congress was relatively low, at the bottom of this chart, compared with other institutions.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For example, telehealth is being used in the management of chronic diseases and follow up/triage programs, which can reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department visits. For example, your community may have a large number of citizens who need diabetes or nutritional counseling.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

To that end, it is interesting to note that Amazon is seeking a privacy professional experienced with HIPAA. Financial toxicity is a growing concern among oncologists treating patients with cancer, for example. Finally, healthcare costs are top-of-mind for patients in the U.S.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

By providing patients with the ability to monitor their own health and receive timely care when needed, RPM can help to improve overall health outcomes and reduce the need for more expensive interventions down the road. To ensure true patient safety, working with someone with experience in this arena is very important.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 17, 2022

By providing patients with the ability to monitor their own health and receive timely care when needed, RPM can help to improve overall health outcomes and reduce the need for more expensive interventions down the road. To ensure true patient safety, working with someone with experience in this arena is very important.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 10, 2023

For example, a small primary care office with a low patient volume may not require a highly advanced or comprehensive system, while a large hospital with a high patient volume may need a more robust and scalable solution. DrKumo is a leader in connected health technology, known for its advanced remote patient monitoring capabilities.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

The challenge here is how health IT can be designed with the users in mind, and that means both clinicians and patients as users. A longer-term solution would be for consumers to control their own health data in secure data lockers. There are early blockchain-enabled examples of this emerging, dotted around the world.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

The startup uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to engage patients and the elderly and connect them with their caregivers. Last summer, Best Buy put down $800 million in cash to acquire GreatCall, a mobile device that connects health and emergency response services to older people and their caregivers.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

Outfits like ATA, HIMSS and others are lobbying for full inclusion of patient-monitoring and home-health data. A popular example as of late is with biometric data: If a panel of diabetic patients are all given Bluetooth glucometers that input into respective EHRs, then what – Will someone monitor each of them? In a word, no.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Key to the plan’s success (crossing fingers) is that the participants must submit an equity plan that requires collecting data as well as developing measures to track success in meeting the goals for addressing social determinants of health. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Voice Health in Action. Here are some interesting examples of use cases to bring value to patients and/or the care team. Although there is excitement around voice health, innovators are working to remove speed bumps to accelerate adoption: Addressing Privacy/Security. Hospital/Patient. food problems).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

One can probably find examples of and exceptions to that at your local gas station. There could be a similar discussion around how the players in the health care system are evolving. Sure, there are exceptions to that, but there are exceptions to that at EVERY organization. Not really.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

Every example in the video demos fit on a continuum from Arnold Schwarzenegger to A-Rod. At the Q&A, I asked why there weren’t any women featured, either as companies’ marketers or in the consumer-user examples. For low-risk mothers, BabyScripts can empower self-care and unneeded trips to the doctor.

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Chilmark Research

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As heard at the water cooler after one regulation-focused session, “This is like HIPAA on steroids.” A noteworthy example of a company capitalizing on these trends is Validic. Just another example of a vendor not being able to deliver on the promises in their advertising.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). the highest in raw and per capita numbers versus the rest of the world.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, 57% of consumers share or forward news items they find interesting, but only 29% of these folks have good information hygiene (specifically, vetting the source and veracity of the shared story). Based on this index, only one in four people around the world have “good” information hygiene.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

In the health/care data ecosystem, stakeholders are addressing the specific challenges related to personal health information (PHI) which HIPAA isn’t covering well in this era of Big Data, cloud computing, and of course, bad actors in the dark cybersecurity breach market. What’s not CGD are data covered by HIPAA.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

An example of legislation newly-crafted to hit the House floor in January 2019 comes from Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the form of the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act. So much of these data flows aren’t covered by HIPAA. This bill would create a government-run drug company to produce and distribute generic medicines.

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