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What the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Means for Healthcare Providers

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. The implications of these changes extend to reimbursement strategies, service delivery methods, and overall patient care quality.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. How can home health technology advancements help ease the strain on EMS services?

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit.

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How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We must add structures that will achieve health equity," said Dr. Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. '" Mahoney continued.

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DrKumo Wins Contract from ProHealth Partners to Empower Remote Patient Monitoring Technology to More Than 200 Physicians

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

a multi-award-winning leader of Connected Health Technology, announced today its winning contract with ProHealth Partners, a well-established network of primary care physicians and specialists in the Greater Long Beach area with expansion into Los Angeles and Orange County areas with more than 200 physicians spanning more than 80 locations.

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Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances.

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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team from the University of Pennsylvania health system sought to compare the demographic characteristics of patients who completed a telemedicine encounter (either via phone or video) with those who were scheduled for one, but did not complete it. A total of 148,402 patients were scheduled during the study period.