Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

But this is just the tip of the condescension iceberg: Go ahead, Google ‘technology grandma’. The 2017 Harvard article indicates that 1 million had signed up for these home nurse visits – but there were 19 million people covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017. With persuasion? The home visit – no tech result, interesting motive.

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The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) has been used since 2015 as a metric to determine negative Medicare payment adjustments to providers who do not meet quality standards. This might tip the benefit-cost ratio for payers to support a drug or other treatment’s cost. Provide real-world data for regulators.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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