Health Care Compliance Brief

Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

Telemedicine

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.

Hospitals

Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | July 13, 2023 News Telehealth proves successful for opioid use disorder treatment Virtual care provider Ophelia found 56% of its OUD patients remained in treatment for six months.

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ScionHealth to launch RPM for chronic care at 79 hospitals

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2022

Louisville-based ScionHealth system, the combined LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare delivery network, and Cadence, a New York-based healthcare technology company, are implementing a remote patient monitoring platform starting with 18 community hospitals in 12 states. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

Hospitals

Hospitals Doctors

Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems operates more than 80 affiliated hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient sites of care in 16 states. Give patients peace of mind and more assurance their conditions are appropriately managed.

Hospitals

Telehealth and RPM help St. John's reduce healthcare disparities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These populations experience high comorbidities, including hypertension, diabetes, heart conditions, asthma and behavioral health issues. "Additionally, most telehealth implementation historically was focused on addressing the needs of rural communities for specialty care, which is a very different context than ours."

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Memorial Healthcare System grows its telehealth offering to 61 programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions. "Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida.

COVID-19

COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction Telemedicine Hospitals

Debunking 4 Myths About Virtual Care to Drive Health Equity

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

COVID-19

Maryland health system conquers the digital divide with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location. Health disparities from the digital divide.

COVID-19

COVID-19 Telemedicine Hospitals

HealthSnap Raises $9 Million Series A for Continued Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

The Investment, Led by Asclepius Growth Capital and Leading Health System Partners, will Enable Care Teams to Empower Patients with a More Personalized Remote-Care Experience HealthSnap , a Miami -based virtual care management platform for chronic disease management, today announced a new round of financing totaling $9 million.

Hospitals

Hospitals Nurses

Debunking 3 Myths About Virtual Care to Drive Health Equity

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

COVID-19

Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 2

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Mount Sinai Health System, based in New York City, has been having a problem with digital health inequities. Almost 25% of New Yorkers lacked the infrastructure for basic internet connectivity to see their healthcare clinicians, and approximately 1.6 " Dr. Robert Fields, Mount Sinai Health System.

Health Outcomes

Health Outcomes Hospitals Telemedicine

Mercy Virtual Care Center: A deep dive into a virtual hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

Louis, Missouri, embarked on amplifying a new digital-first frontier in 2015: A new virtual care model of remote patient monitoring for patients living with complex conditions. "The patients are enrolled in RPM through Mercy Virtual's patient engagement program, vEngagement – "v" for virtual.

Hospitals

Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Nurses Telemedicine

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Trinity Health's RPM program drops 30-day readmissions rate from 16% to 6%

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM.

Patient Satisfaction

Patient Satisfaction Nurses Medicare Medicare

Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?

HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2022

We asked 22 healthcare and health sciences leaders for their thoughts; here’s what they said. Our constant exposure to pain, suffering, and death exacts a severe toll over time, even as we are conditioned to greet grief with a smile. Information overload is a contributing factor to health worker burnout.

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Electronic Medical Records Doctors Hospitals COVID-19

Health Provider News – August 26, 2022

Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2022

3 Major Payers Take Action on Social Determinants of Health. Amazon competes with CVS Health, others in bid for Signify Health. Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care. Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care. More than 80 health systems hit by cybersecurity breaches in August.

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Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses Hospitals

Health Care Compliance Brief

Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

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