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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. What roles do remote monitoring devices and telehealth visits play with this home care orchestration style of hospital-at-home? This may seem like an insignificant example.

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Temple uses $1M of FCC telehealth funding for virtual care platform, tablets and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. “The main metrics include volume, access, patient experience and total cost of care.”

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

At the same time, health system leaders in the study cite three key strategies topping their list, including the need to grow revenue, recruit and retain staff ( think: burnout ), and reduce costs. Retail health-meets-Medicare. These trends began to take hold in the U.S.

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How the Centers for Medicare Services Supports and Regulates Remote Patient Monitoring Services

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has emerged as a vital component of modern healthcare delivery, offering a means to monitor patients’ health remotely and proactively intervene when necessary. These may include wearable devices, mobile apps, telehealth platforms, and remote monitoring software.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye. Improved workflows.

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A virtual speech therapy trailblazer offers a deep dive into this telehealth treatment

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We interviewed Ben-Aharon to talk about the convergence of speech therapy and telehealth. How is speech therapy delivered via telehealth? The pandemic introduced many people to the convenience of accessing multiple healthcare services via virtual care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Telehealth happens across the U.S. Then Medicare goes bust.

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