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

care innovations

As government agencies like the CMS and VA expanded access to telehealth towards the goal of extending care into rural areas, industry leaders like Care Innovations® announced a series of breakthroughs with exciting implications for the years to come. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Dave advanced the idea that “it’s a whole new chapter, a whole new model of how to care for folks,” stepping away from a nineteenth-century model “still deployed pervasively today” where an individual sees a PCP every three months or every six months, has a six or twelve or seventeen minute appointment and then disappears.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Dave advanced the idea that “it’s a whole new chapter, a whole new model of how to care for folks,” stepping away from a nineteenth-century model “still deployed pervasively today” where an individual sees a PCP every three months or every six months, has a six or twelve or seventeen minute appointment and then disappears.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Dave advanced the idea that “it’s a whole new chapter, a whole new model of how to care for folks,” stepping away from a nineteenth-century model “still deployed pervasively today” where an individual sees a PCP every three months or every six months, has a six or twelve or seventeen minute appointment and then disappears.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Dave advanced the idea that “it’s a whole new chapter, a whole new model of how to care for folks,” stepping away from a nineteenth-century model “still deployed pervasively today” where an individual sees a PCP every three months or every six months, has a six or twelve or seventeen minute appointment and then disappears.

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Telehealth Home Monitoring and Remote Patient Monitoring: The Perfect Combination for Modern Healthcare

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and communication technologies to provide health-related services remotely, such as virtual consultations, remote monitoring, and patient education. This data can then be used to monitor and efficiently manage chronic conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.

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Expanding Healthcare’s Reach on the Edge

Healthcare IT Today

Patients can use the devices to check their medication, read about their doctors, and even order their meals, freeing the staff to focus on medical care. Wearable medical devices can monitor vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure, and health monitors can help with remote care.