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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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.

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Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health

Health Populi

The two organizations have collaborated to launch a new benchmarking study into health-beauty-wellness (HBW) sales, launched this weekend at the GMDC HBW Conference in Orlando. Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories.

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Hospitals Work to Address Customer Experience Gap With Consumers, Kaufman Hall Finds

Health Populi

Deloitte calculated another way to measure the ROI of patient delight by looking at hospitals’ financial performance, finding that those providers who scored more highly on patient experience yielded better financial outcomes — highly correlated to patient-nurse engagement.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. There’s a nuance in trust that’s a key insight in this study regarding trust in clinicians overall, and trust when clinicians use technology. Let’s call out the two keywords in this phrase: Concern + Embrace. .

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. What is the point of sneering at older people? Because technology can be used for a purpose, inventors want to make it so.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Title: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. Agency: Board of Nursing. Amends rules regarding advanced practice registered nurses.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen.