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. This is largely driven by an aging population and increasing preferences for care in familiar surroundings.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

9amHealth is addressing this challenge by providing affordable cardiometabolic care at scale and helping to manage the rising costs of GLP-1s for both patients and employers. “For the first time ever, we’re seeing a significant uptick in patients who are excited about taking care of their diabetes and weight health. .”

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

A team of Virta Health leaders held a webinar on 13th July 2023 to explain the results of a study the company just completed assessing health plan execs’ current views on Ozempic and other GLP-1 medicines with a view on both clinical outcomes and cost implications for this growing category of drugs that address diabetes and obesity.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Emphasizing patient-centered solutions, this methodology is set to revolutionize the management of chronic diseases, thereby impacting patient care and healthcare economics significantly. It involves identifying at-risk populations, tailoring services to their needs, and deploying appropriate personnel for service delivery.

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Medical AI is on the brink of improving outcomes for countless patients, prompting a trio of all-star researchers to pen an NEJM AI article tackling what might be its biggest obstacle: real-world adoption. AI for diabetic eye exams). What drives real-world adoption? That said, if a given measure is not met (e.g.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Telemedicine consultations could be “key” to addressing the growing costs of diabetes treatment and management in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a new report has found. “This has been simpler with the introduction of new, easier-to-use self-monitoring tools. ” THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

the life-expectancy gap between neighborhoods is as large as 27 years, according to the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine. "The innovation that has been occurring in healthcare hasn't trickled down to these populations," said Crawford. In Washington, D.C.,

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MARCH 21, 2023

The removal of the age restriction and inclusion of type 2 diabetes will enable more people with diabetes to access Dexcom’s real-time CGM System – the standard of care in diabetes management BURNABY, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dexcom, Inc. I hope more provinces follow Manitoba’s lead.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2023

One of the big challenges ambulatory practices face today is how to navigate the increasingly complicated world of population including things like HEDIS scores. The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

TimeDoc Health is a vendor of virtual care management, chronic condition management and remote patient monitoring technologies and services. The success of chronic care management pivots on patient behavior change, a transformational process that lies at the core of our mission at TimeDoc. Take, for instance, remote patient monitoring.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 1, 2023

The study analysed over 123,000 images of 38,398 diabetes patients across 11 sites in Los Angeles , California, and achieved statistically significant superior performance compared to baseline models in detecting multiple biomarkers. The researchers believe that the tool could be best used in screening settings.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. By the autumn of 2020, U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

New Investment is Led by Sands Capital, with Participation from Comcast Ventures, and Follows Enterprise Health System Expansions HealthSnap , a Miami-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solution for healthcare providers, today announced its Series B financing totaling $25 million. million to date.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 2024

” He says that the relationship between the care manager and the patient is the number one driver of success. Second, AI can pull together medical data from disparate sources to create a unified patient record. If genetics lie at the basis of obesity, the patient is more likely to gain weight back after bariatric surgery.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Fourth Acquisition Bolsters Remote Patient Monitoring Company’s Presence in Primary Care and Cardiology CoachCare , a leading remote patient monitoring (RPM) and virtual health company, has acquired Nashville, Tennessee-based RPM company Verustat , for an undisclosed amount. Originally announced December 18th, 2023

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual pharmacy care program provides convenient access to Dexcom G6 rtCGM supplies and diabetes management support services TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mednow Inc. The Virtual Diabetes Management program will initially be available in Ontario and British Columbia starting in early February.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

It is another strong signal about the growing blur between grocery stores, food, digital tech, and population health. The digital health platform LLENA (AI) announced its collaboration with Walmart to support people managing diabetes with personalized nutrition support from data tracking pulling through to healthy food delivery.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 10, 2023

(NASDAQ: BTTX), a pioneer in developing software to treat cardiometabolic diseases, today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized AspyreRx (formerly BT-001), a prescription-only digital therapeutic (PDT) treatment indicated to provide cognitive behavioral therapy to patients 18 years or older with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Leon Medical Centers serves Medicare patients in South Florida. The healthcare organization drives toward a standard of care that focuses on personalized patient-physician relationships and quality-driven medical care. The center also is the only HIMSS Stage 7 Outpatient Medical Care Institution in Miami-Dade County. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

"Although the increase in telemedicine use during the pandemic is widely recognized, it is unclear how the use of telemedicine and in-person care has varied across patient demographics, clinical specialties, and medical conditions," wrote the research team. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2022

However, a recent study from telemedicine technology and services vendor Teladoc Health found that participants were successful in controlling their diabetes through a remote diabetes monitoring program despite existing barriers to care access. What were the results you realized after one year of patients in the program?

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AUGUST 3, 2023

As the introduction explains, “delivering care in the home has emerged as not only a possible solution to points of friction, but a way to transform how we think about caring for patients.” Discussing the firm’s latest research into patient experience, the study of 3,000 U.S. An aging U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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. "One of the most obvious and tangible examples of this is technology that detects elevated blood-glucose levels, a red flag for prediabetes or diabetes. an estimated $3.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2022

population has a chronic disease, and caring for them is consuming 86% of healthcare costs. Some health systems are beginning to reconfigure care models to proactively care for patients with chronic conditions and illnesses, and a key component of this is implementing remote patient monitoring services.

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MARCH 17, 2021

As telehealth capabilities continue to develop and grow, so does the capability to provide care to patients in underserved and rural populations. There is a lack of services for the homeless population in addition to endless barriers, including travel to healthcare facilities, follow-up care, and ancillary services.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Startup Lark Health released new research on the ability of its virtual diabetes prevention program to engage prediabetic patients with limited access to primary care doctors. Delivering care virtually to at-risk populations is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lark Health CEO Julia Hu says.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Chronically ill patients may not always require visiting the hospital frequently if their follow-ups and routine checkups can be managed remotely.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

Exploring the Intersection of Patients and AI at OpenNotes Lab. Read more… Filling Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement With Patients. Read more… Can Digital Technologies Really Help Overcome Diabetes ? Andy Oram assessed the recent PHTI report digital interventions for diabetes. Million in funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

And physicians and patients alike discovered there were many things they could accomplish over a video connection. Peter Antall, chief medical officer at Amwell, to discuss delivering primary care via telemedicine, and how it can help patients, cut costs and aid population health management. But it worked.

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MAY 2, 2024

Note to readers: This is the fifth post in a six-part series exploring the perspectives of digital patient engagement. Digital engagement is a cornerstone of effective patient care. Engaging a diverse patient population through accessible, intuitive digital platforms can significantly enhance patient outcomes and satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The release of final rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT regarding the 21st Century Cures Act have shined a renewed spotlight on patients' ability to take control of their own health data. Focus on patient training in the deployment of new technologies to account for varied digital literacy levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2024

The rapidly expanding use of GLP-1 drugs has been life-altering for many, but brings its own disappointments: They’re extremely expensive, require continual use to be effective, have potentially negative effects on muscle mass , and are usually abandoned by patients. What Have GLP-1 Medications Accomplished?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. "When designing telehealth interventions, we must ask ourselves, 'How can recent advances in health technology help achieve health equity in the populations we serve?'"

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

We’re talking about a team sport here — to most effectively benefit patients’ outcomes from prevention through diagnosis and treatment. Here’s a table from the Swiss Re report to which I referred earlier, on how health ecosystems can enchant and streamline with patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This region is densely populated. It has high levels of poverty, has a large immigrant population, is primarily Latino and Black, and is over-represented in essential jobs that cannot be performed remotely. "Patients do not have to download an app and can just use their telephones. THE PROBLEM. " Jim Manga, St.

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