•COVID-19 - Coronavirus
Seismic Shifts Occurring in Care Delivery
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shifted our ideas about what is possible at home. Many people continue to work from home, others switched to virtual school, and the…
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Remote Patient Monitoring
Healthcare access, remote physical exams, rural and school health, reimbursement, clinical technology, and the evolving ways care can reach patients.
•Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote Patient Monitoring Goes Mainstream, And Healthcare Transformation Follows
Remote patient monitoring has finally gone mainstream. After more than two decades of cultivation – from cardiac telemetry to Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs and now to wearable…
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•Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
FCC Unveils 14 Initial Projects Selected for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program
FCC announces initial 14 pilot project selected for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program that will support connected care service across the country and focus on low-income and…
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•Telehealth
Analysis: CMS Gives Telehealth a Boost, But More is Needed
Experts say the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule will advance telehealth adoption, but it falls short of giving momentum to remote patient monitoring. Oh, and Congress needs to…
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•Telehealth
2021 Medicare Remote Patient Monitoring FAQs: CMS Issues Final Rule
On December 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote patient monitoring aka remote physiologic monitoring or “RPM,” reimbursed…
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•Remote Patient Monitoring
CMS finalizes remote patient monitoring regulations in final rule: 7 takeaways
CMS released the 2021 physician fee schedule Dec. 1 with expanded telehealth services, remote physiologic monitoring updates and an extension for telecommunications tech supervision. Seven takeaways: 1. CMS clarified its payment policies related…
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•Telehealth
Understanding the Difference in Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Telecare
Have you been wondering what telemedicine, telehealth, and telecare mean? Find out now. With the recent practice of social distancing and quarantining due to COVID-19, more medical…
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•Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Hospital Discharged COVID-19 Patients
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: We deployed a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program to monitor patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) upon hospital discharge. We describe the patient characteristics, program…
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•COVID-19 - Coronavirus
CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge
Building off its Hospital Without Walls initiative, it’s offering new flexibilities around telehealth and remote patient monitoring as the country enters “a new level of crisis response,”…
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•Telehealth
How healthcare organizations can enhance RPM security, resiliency
Remote patient monitoring ecosystems should not be treated in the same way as traditional endpoints, say cybersecurity experts. By Kat Jercich November 24, 202001:00 PM As the…
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•Remote Patient Monitoring
Stark Law Changes Should Benefit Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring
The OIG’s Final Rule on changes to the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute creates several new safe harbors that will help providers create and expand telehealth platforms…
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•Telehealth
AMA plans to push for more telehealth ‘throughout the pandemic and beyond’
The American Medical Association has adopted new telehealth policy positions, the organization announced upon the Tuesday closing of a special five-day virtual meeting. In an email sent to…
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•Telemedicine
‘Virtual Hospital’ Model Passes Test in COVID-19 Patients
Only a few patients with COVID-19 pneumonia required hospitalization when they received care in a “hospital at home” (HaH) telemedicine program, researchers at one health system reported.…
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•COVID-19 - Coronavirus
Patient-Monitoring Tech Lets COVID-19 Patients Recover at Home
with increasing knowledge about COVID-19, advancements in care are changing the way people recover from the virus — and helping curb its spread. At the onset of…
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•COVID-19 - Coronavirus
Virtual Healthcare in Times of COVID-19
By: Atibhi Mehra and Anirban Panda Over the years, the healthcare sector has made considerable efforts to shift from a reactive to a proactive approach by placing…
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