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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

This week at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference, Philips is “making the case for moving to the cloud,” discussing the Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform for connecting providers and patients, devices (and the data they generate), and care across the health care continuum.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The CONNECT Act would aim to answer at least some of those questions, at least where Medicare is concerned. A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Telehealth advocates ramp up pressure on elected officials

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

"This commonsense policy helped ensure that families could access vital telehealth services – including virtual primary care and behavioral health services – prior to having to meet their deductible," wrote the organizations. Signers also included the Connected Health Initiative, the Alliance for Connected Care, the U.S.

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Apixio and ClaimLogiq Merge to Create a Leading Connected Care Platform

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2023

Eir Partners , ClaimLogiq’s first institutional investor, has backed ClaimLogiq since 2021 and will remain a significant minority investor in the combined company. We are excited to come together with Apixio as we build the nation’s leading connected care platform,” added Tom Magnotta. “By

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GlobalMed®, a Partner with Valor Healthcare, Awarded Contract to Provide Remote Patient Monitoring to the VA Office of Connected Care

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JUNE 6, 2023

GlobalMed®, a Partner with Valor Healthcare, Awarded Contract to Provide Remote Patient Monitoring to the VA Office of Connected Care. 72,000 veterans with chronic care needs are currently enrolled in VA RPM-HT. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

How can telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies help support chronic and acute care anywhere? With the right tools, extending care outside the hospital is not only feasible, but in many cases preferred.

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Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Clínica Alemana Osorno, located in southern Chile, has introduced digital communication workflows that leverage connected care. Digital workflows are helping the clinic create a better patient experience, enhance workforce efficiency and increase access to care across its 46 medical specialties and four facilities.

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VA study shows benefits of telestroke program for patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

"The message is not to aim for an increase or decrease [in] transfers but to match the patient with the correct disposition and level of care based on their needs," said the researchers. By August 2021, the program was active in 50 facilities nationwide. ON THE RECORD.

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Sonde Health and MassGen Selected for MassAITC Pilot Study to Examine Use of Voice in Remote Detection and Monitoring of Mild Cognitive Impairment

Digital Health Global

MARCH 1, 2023

In August 2021, Mass General was named #5 in the U.S. The Mass General Research Institute conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the nation, with annual research operations of more than $1 billion and comprises more than 9,500 researchers working across more than 30 institutes, centers and departments.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

The concept of a "telehealth cliff" – an abrupt end to the progress made in expanding and enabling virtual care once the pandemic is finally over – has been of concern for some time.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Intuitive software tools can help to connect care teams and patients. 2021 Feb; 17(2): 218–221. For example, treating major chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases or cancer requires continuously monitored data to optimize medication. Australas Psychiatry. 2020 Oct; 28(5): 514–516. Gajarawala et al.

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Sweetwater Medical reduces patients' blood pressure and weight with AI and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Sweetwater launched the RPM program in October 2021 with 100 patients and now has expanded the program to 240 patients. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Mary Washington Healthcare Partners with Caregility to Pioneer Inpatient Virtual Engagement and Virtual Nursing Program

Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. EATONTOWN, N.J., & FREDERICKSBURG, Va.–(BUSINESS Follow Caregility on LinkedIn and Twitter at @caregility.

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Algonquin College and Queensway Carleton Hospital Partner for Hands-On EHR Training using MEDITECH Expanse

Digital Health Global

MARCH 17, 2023

This marks the first time Algonquin College’s Bachelor of Technology – Digital Health program has offered an applied learning EHR lab, since it was launched in 2021. MEDITECH empowers healthcare organizations everywhere to expand their vision of what’s possible with Expanse , the world’s most intuitive and interoperable HIS.

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Fraser Health to Leverage Generative AI for Clinical Documentation in MEDITECH Expanse EHR

Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 7, 2023

MEDITECH and Google Cloud have worked together on developing AI initiatives since 2021. What we are learning now will be very relevant to other healthcare organizations of varying size, geography, and population, as we all move forward with these new technologies.”

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How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2023

Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges with nurse staffing shortages posing one of the biggest threats to care delivery. workforce from 2020 to 2021 due to a perfect storm of issues ranging from burnout and job dissatisfaction to competing family obligations and COVID-related illness.

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Tablet-based RPM keeps TRU Community Care patients and caregivers happy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

The plan was to have a yearlong rollout of the new platform and give it time to work out all the bugs to have ten patients on the program, and then formally launch the program in January 2021. "For example, TRU has a patient who lives north of the Denver area receiving care from a large area hospital," he related.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

The first bill of note is the 2023 update to the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, which, among other telehealth expansions, will permanently remove the in-person requirement for behavioral health clients and patients receiving Medicare.* The newly proposed Act (H.R.

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How Virtual Care Is Solving Chronic Disease Challenges

GlobalMed

MARCH 8, 2021

Never have providers been under more pressure to deliver cost-effective care. Changing Lives with Connected Care. The post How Virtual Care Is Solving Chronic Disease Challenges appeared first on GlobalMed. How Virtual Care Is Solving Chronic Disease Challenges was first posted on March 8, 2021 at 9:00 am.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

The first bill of note is the 2023 update to the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, which, among other telehealth expansions, will permanently remove the in-person requirement for behavioral health clients and patients receiving Medicare.* The newly proposed Act (H.R.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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Integration as a strategy: What RPM product teams can learn from recent M&A trends

Redox

MARCH 28, 2022

It took only the first three quarters for 2021 to outpace the sector’s deal count by 70. The steep M&A increase in 2021 — and the revealing patterns within those deals — creates an urgent call to action for RPM product teams: Your technology must play well with others. WebCareHealth, 2021.

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Nuvo Group Ltd., an FDA-Cleared Leading Innovator in Pregnancy Care, to Become a Public Company Via Business Combination with LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I

Digital Health Global

AUGUST 18, 2023

INVU has two FDA clearances and enables a connected care experience between expectant parents and the clinicians by shifting the point-of-care to the expectant mother, designed to enable access to high quality care from anywhere.

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Nuvo Group Ltd. and LAMF Global Ventures Corp I Announce Intent to List Nuvo on Nasdaq Through a Business Combination

Digital Health Global

APRIL 28, 2023

INVU has two FDA clearances and enables a connected care experience between expectant parents and the OB care team by shifting the point-of-care to the expectant mom, designed to enable access to high quality care from anywhere.

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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. This grant comes as we near the conclusion this month of our first two-year, $1 million award studying how telehealth transformation impacted primary care access.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. As Evans explained, VA video-to-home telehealth encounters increased by 3,147% from 294,847 encounters in fiscal year 2019 to 9,575,958 encounters in fiscal year 2021. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3

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How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

" This seventh annual edition of the report from global technology vendor Philips analyzes feedback from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders across 15 countries on the impact of digital health technology in the adoption of connected care. healthcare leaders in 2021, but a priority for 29% in 2022, according to the report.

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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Health systems should also evaluate the security policies of third-party vendors, some of whom may have been unprepared for the rapid shift to virtual care; implement robust user authentication measures and device-security management; and instruct patients on how to properly configure and install RPM devices. ON THE RECORD.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

" "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring." "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Henry Ford Health System gets ROI from employer-based telemedicine clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. THE PROBLEM.

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VA seeks to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Telehealth has been an important point of access to care for veterans and the agency laid the groundwork for the pandemic-fueled telehealth spike, according to Dr. Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration.

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CopilotIQ and Biofourmis Merge to Build Single Pane Home Care

Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One of the biggest stories to come out of last week’s HLTH meetup was the surprise merger between Biofourmis and its under-the-radar remote care competitor CopilotIQ. CopilotIQ launched a few short years ago in 2021 to provide remote patient monitoring for seniors managing chronic conditions through its High-Frequency Connected Care platform.

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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Telehealth advocates ramp up pressure on elected officials

Apixio and ClaimLogiq Merge to Create a Leading Connected Care Platform

GlobalMed®, a Partner with Valor Healthcare, Awarded Contract to Provide Remote Patient Monitoring to the VA Office of Connected Care

The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

VA study shows benefits of telestroke program for patients

Sonde Health and MassGen Selected for MassAITC Pilot Study to Examine Use of Voice in Remote Detection and Monitoring of Mild Cognitive Impairment

As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

8 benefits of Telehealth

Sweetwater Medical reduces patients' blood pressure and weight with AI and RPM

Mary Washington Healthcare Partners with Caregility to Pioneer Inpatient Virtual Engagement and Virtual Nursing Program

Algonquin College and Queensway Carleton Hospital Partner for Hands-On EHR Training using MEDITECH Expanse

Fraser Health to Leverage Generative AI for Clinical Documentation in MEDITECH Expanse EHR

How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes

Tablet-based RPM keeps TRU Community Care patients and caregivers happy

Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

How Virtual Care Is Solving Chronic Disease Challenges

Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Integration as a strategy: What RPM product teams can learn from recent M&A trends

Nuvo Group Ltd., an FDA-Cleared Leading Innovator in Pregnancy Care, to Become a Public Company Via Business Combination with LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I

Nuvo Group Ltd. and LAMF Global Ventures Corp I Announce Intent to List Nuvo on Nasdaq Through a Business Combination

MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

How U.S. healthcare leaders are shifting course to navigate a changed world

Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Henry Ford Health System gets ROI from employer-based telemedicine clinic

VA seeks to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas

CopilotIQ and Biofourmis Merge to Build Single Pane Home Care

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