care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

With 2019 now upon us, please join us in taking a look back at the most momentous remote care stories from 2018, as reported here at the Care Innovations blog. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

"Through telemedicine, we pushed the frontlines to locations far from our hospitals and doctor's offices," said Mann. "Medicare announced its coverage at noon, and we saw our first [Medicare] patient at 5 that day." " "The payers see the value proposition in what we've done," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to cultivate clinician buy-in.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. " None of that is a coincidence, of course. ATA was founded way back in 1993.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. In addition to a shortage of clinicians to provide care, there often are other barriers to access, which include cost and transportation issues. Telepsychiatry is a useful tool that is cost-effective and efficacious when provided by an experienced clinician.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

What’s most important and impactful about telehealth is the technology’s ability to enable care and improve accessibility. The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States. Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Additionally, medical devices can also be used to provide patients with self-management tools and resources to help them better manage their chronic condition. Remote care can include remote consultations, remote monitoring of vital signs, and remote management of chronic conditions.

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care innovations

AUGUST 8, 2018

Today, it’s widely regarded as a model of how to leverage telehealth and RPM technology to extend care into remote areas. Few other states have utilized telehealth as a patient care access tool the way Mississippi has,” as Xtelligent Media’s Sara Heath notes in an overview of UMMC’s telehealth success.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. But they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they’d get in person, and that their health information stays private.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2023

"Ultimately, my team would have had to spend more time using both of those tools while getting subpar patient engagement and patient-reported outcomes," he said. " Siddiqi's goal was to effectively move more elements of in-person care into the home, including virtual check-ins, education and physical therapy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

This is a bipartisan bill recently passed in Congress that allows citizens with high-deductible health plans and health savings accounts access to telehealth and other remote care services permanently, without having to meet their minimum deductible first. How can the healthcare community strengthen equitable access to health services?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2020

TalkWithYourDoc.com, the company said, delivers more than remote-care appointments. Get Real Health President Robin Wiener said TalkWithYourDoc.com is a secure monitoring tool that can aid a provider when diagnosing a patient. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. THE LARGER TREND.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the recent past, such initiatives have included: The expansion of reimbursement for remote care services by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). One such area is to help providers understand how telemedicine can be used, in certain circumstances, to expand access to buprenorphine-based MAT.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, BIDMC staff expect telemedicine to continue at the current volume of 20% of all ambulatory care visits. Remote monitoring has also moved into the mainstream. Timely and effective urgent and emergency care. Please elaborate. At AWS, we consider machine learning in three layers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Clinicians can conduct 1-on-1 or group conversations via text, voice or video with patients, so enhancing remote care while avoiding potential exposure to COVID-19 or other infectious diseases. Healthcare IT News has compiled a listing of telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19, a resource for health IT leaders.

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