Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. The solution, of course, relies on data sharing among the participating care providers. Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. This is despite success at standardizing on single formats for electronic medical records.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Teaming with Boston Children’s Hospital, it developed a then-groundbreaking Alexa feature that allowed the company’s AI-driven voice service to provide parents with basic health advice in response to questions about a child’s fever-like symptoms. Amazon’s healthcare dabbling stretches back to at least 2016.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

Some of those expansive measures, like expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth, will remain, at least temporarily, and others, like continuous Medicaid enrollment, will be phased out entirely in the next few months. What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. A visit to the hushed carrels and blinking monitors is a glimpse into a future in which hospital systems are paid more when their patients are healthy, not sick. Of course, a nurse in St.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

The hospital promotes employee development and education through free professional and general education courses as well as educational assistance benefits for BSN, MSN and MHA degrees. Employees also have the option of taking up to a 48-month leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time course of study. Pinehurst (N.C.)

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Mend

JANUARY 18, 2021

The bill did add critical access Hospitals (CAHs) and small, rutral hospitals with less than 50 beds to the list of sites eligible for reimbursement through Medicare for certain telehealth services, opening the door to the expansion of telehealth services in parts of the country where access is a challenge.

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