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Everly Health Launches Comprehensive At-Home Collection Kidney Health Test to Address Chronic Kidney Disease

Digital Health Global

Early detection of kidney disease may reduce Medicare costs associated with CKD by 74% or $63.2 billion based on data collected by Everly Health. The patient experience is simple: program participants receive their easy-to-use at-home test kit, collect a sample, and mail it back in a pre-paid envelope.

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Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want

Healthcare IT Today

The company can’t engage in the gold standard of randomized clinical trials for many reasons: the difficulty of finding subjects, the time required, and the ethical quandary of denying care to half of the subjects. The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Healthcare IT Today

Studies and Reports So far in 2023, only 24% of healthcare organizations were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before attackers encrypted their data , according to a Sophos survey. Nearly nine in 10 (88%) of clinicians recognize the potential of virtual and remote care, according to the EY Global Voices in Healthcare Study.

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Nuvance Health develops new memory care-at-home platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Neuroglee Connect helps patients stimulate their brains and bolster them against cognitive deterioration with medically-tested activities at home while their caregivers can use support and informational tools that help them identify MCI-related anxiety and stress from day to day, according to the announcement.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

News The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative , which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizations. Virtual specialty care vendor Summus released Summus Peer-to-Peer to support specialty consults.

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

care innovations

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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How RTM is a potential game-changer for improving outcomes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night.