Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

Hospitals are required to send ADT notifications to community providers as a Condition of Participation under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, and it will be required under law for most California hospitals by January 31, 2024.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prior to that, he led multi-million-dollar advertising strategies for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, including their go-to-market strategy of Medicare Part D plans. “I Most recently, Narayan served as the Chief Commercial Officer for PeriGen, Inc.,

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The previous article in this series explained some of the ways payers, providers, and digital health companies demonstrate that they have made a positive difference in their patients’ lives. The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Digital Health Wire

MAY 7, 2023

The news sent shares of Option Care’s stock sliding over 20% as investors grappled with Amedisys’ reliance on Medicare reimbursement that hasn’t been friendly to home health. Amedisys ranks among the nation’s top independent providers of home health services, offering everything from nursing to hospice. Time will tell.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I recently collaborated with HealthMine on a survey looking into Medicare Advantage members’ views of health and digital technology. It’s not enough to build/offer digital health tech to patients. The HealthMine study found folks largely unaware of patient portals, for example.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools. Consumer engagement company Carenet Health hired Rhonda Gibler as Chief Sales Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Bryan Hill, VP of digital health and innovation at Cognizant , offered a theoretical grounding for behavior adjustment: the Fogg Behavior Model that asks the person to define motivations, triggers, and abilities. Ortiz talks about connecting patient needs with assistance from family, friends, a nursing agency, or other help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

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!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. Medicare currently doesn't reimburse federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) or rural health centers (RHCs) for RPM. Then COVID-19 hit. A: We are starting to see different approaches to RPM emerge.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come. Click here to Leave a Review. Meet our Premier Partners.

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Andrew Parker, Founder and CEO of Papa. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement. The Power of Digital Health Technology Reimbursement Q4: What can payers do differently?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Consumers are on board with telehealth , and engagement technologies like smartphones and tablets are offered through Medicare Advantage , plus a wave of other pandemic-related tactics and free offerings appeared. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Technology - AARP , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

Today, the Brookings Institution convened a meeting on the funding for social determinants of health to address disparities, costs, and quality of healthcare in America. This concept is recommended in the last chapter of HealthConsuming as the plot moves to the question of whether health consumers will emerge as health citizens in America.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. The OntarioMD Digital Health Conference returned to in-person for the first time since COVID-19.

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 16, 2022

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Andrew Parker, Founder and CEO of Papa. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement. Medicare Advantage. It is virtual human connection, right to the front door. .

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling a PCP, who might take hours or even days to return a call—and determine whether a problem can be solved at home, urgent care, or the emergency room.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Investors continue to salivate over health tech. billion in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) And even when investments or company rollups are specifically about the Medicare population – frothy writeups cannot bring themselves to use clear wording. Rant on. So the first half of 2018 saw $3.4

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It is an exciting time in the world of digital health! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final 2020 rules, which directly impacts remote patient monitoring (RPM) services. Lesley Mathis is a clinical manager at Care Innovations and a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare (Remote) About Our Company Vytalize Health is a leading value-based care platform for seniors that has raised over $70 million in financing from top healthcare investors. We are a diverse team of physicians, technologists, MBAs, nurses, and operators.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

This includes a variety of nonprofit and public eligible providers like teaching hospitals and medical schools, community medical centers, local health departments or agencies, not-for-profit hospitals, rural health clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. Solving Virtual Care Access Means Tackling Digital Divide Barriers.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 17, 2023

(Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMZ) (“PAVmed”), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors, and its majority-owned subsidiaries Lucid Diagnostics Inc. Out-of-network payments received to date have respected the Medicare rate.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. However, as technology is increasingly incorporated into every aspect of business operations, downtime threats can grow exponentially.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. Scripta Insights is integrating Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company ‘s discounted pricing into its Med Mapper program for self-insured employers and health plans. Value-based care platform Privia Health named David S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

The spike has been attributed to a) the declaration of a state of emergency in March; b) introduction of Medicare/Medicaid coverage matching in-person visits; and c) encouragement from hospitals and medical practitioners. . These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers.

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Beyond Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2021

Monitoring programs can collect a wide range of health data from the point of care, such as vital signs, weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood oxygen levels, heart rate, and electrocardiograms. Health professionals monitor these patients remotely and act on the information received as part of the treatment plan.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018. billion in 2018.

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Digital Health Wire

AUGUST 31, 2023

With Robert Flippo MobileHelp / Clear Arch Health, CEO In this Digital Health Wire Q&A, we sat down with MobileHelp CEO Robert Flippo to discuss the shifting remote patient monitoring landscape and how new technologies are enabling more people to age independently.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Here are four blog posts from September 2018: Investors continue to salivate over health tech. billion invested in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) Yes that is vertical integration in the continuum of care – specifically for health services to elderly Medicare recipients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs. Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

After all, both healthcare and ATC follow tightly defined processes AND always leave ultimate decisions up to the judgment of professionals — doctors and nurses, controllers and pilots. Before billing any codes, ensure you understand the latest fee schedule and guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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