Qualcomm today announced that Qualcomm’s subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., and Roche, a leader in point-of-care diagnostics, have entered into a strategic partnership to improve remote patient monitoring and management of chronic disease patients. Together, the companies aim to advance chronic care management using connected therapy to further improve therapy quality, increase convenience and drive patient engagement in managing their health.
Partnership Details
Roche will utilize Qualcomm
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Medsphere Adds Population Health Solution to OpenVista EHR
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable EHR solutions, today introduced OpenVista® Population Health, a Windows-based solution that gives clinicians much greater flexibility in how they provide care for both individual patients and broader patient populations.
OpenVista Population Health enables breadth of information by giving clinicians the ability to create multiple panels for patients with common characteristics, i.e., age, diagnosis, community,
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Provider Awarded $1M to Develop NY’s First Telehealth Program for Children
If children with severe medical complexity can thrive with ongoing treatment at home - rather than in a hospital or institutional setting – then there’s a promising model pointing towards success for current efforts to rebalance healthcare from hospitals to the community.
St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, New York’s largest provider of post-acute care to children and young adults with medical complexity, has been awarded a $928,668 grant to improve care for children who
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Survey: Healthcare Executives See Population Health Management Investment Recouped Within 4 Years
More than half of healthcare managers surveyed expected to recoup their population health management investments within three to four years, according to a recent online survey conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm. Population health management programs – an approach to medicine that encourages greater collaboration and integration among healthcare providers and their patients is largely being driven by growth in the number of accountable care type models,
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New York Signs Telehealth Reimbursement Bill
Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into legislation stating that deductibles, co-insurance or other conditions for coverage of telehealth visits cannot differ from those for in-person visits. The bill enacted last week is retroactive to January 1st; however, it will take sometime for insurance companies to update their policies. The legislation was sponsored by Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell.
"Essentially it’s now been put into law that health insurance can recognize a
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Senior Care Platform Independa Enters Into Consumer Market
According to the National Alliance for Caregiving, there are 65 million caregivers in the US -- and 51% of their care recipients are aged 75+. To open up communication possibilities for cargivers, senior care platform provider Independa has announced its entrance into the consumer market by making its Independa TV available to anyone who is struggling to provide remote care for their aging loved one. This powerful and simple TV-based solution enhances the lives and independence of
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Real-time Health Monitoring Will Revolutionize Patient Home Care in 2015
Founder and CEO, Robert Herzog of eCaring describes how tailoring programs for special patient populations will improve patient home care while reducing risks of hospital readmissions.
Real-time health monitoring including the patient's home continues to gain importance as pressures come from a variety of sources to reduce risks and costs of readmissions and hospitalizations. The Centers for the Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), enforcing the 2012 Medicare Readmission
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LifeWise Health Plan of Oregon Offers Telehealth Visits To Members
LifeWise Health Plan of Oregon announced it will offer telehealth visits via Teladoc physicians to its members for the purpose of diagnosis, prevention, health advice, disease management and treatment starting starting next year. Effective January 1, 2015, virtual care will be a component of LifeWise's healthcare delivery system and will be available as a covered benefit to all members.
Telehealth Visits Overview
Telehealth LifeWise members will have access to telehealth services
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American Well Raises $81M To Expand Telehealth Visits
Tehealth leader, American Well has raised $81 million in Series C funding to expand telehealth videos with patients, according to a SEC filing. American Well immediately connects U.S. board-certified physicians with patients for live, on-demand video visits 24-7, and handles all related administrative, security and record keeping functions. See below for the full release details.
“Telehealth is about to completely change how people get healthcare,” said Doug Wenners, Senior Vice President for
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KLAS: Phytel Takes Lead in Population Health Vendor Market Race
Population health management is one of the hottest emerging markets in the health IT space and vendors are quickly racing to carve out market share.70% of providers report that they see tangible benefits to patient care when using certain population health vendors, according to KLAS. But with so many PHM vendors and very little data, healthcare providers are having a hard time identifying who is the best vendor to help them maximize the benefits of their population health efforts.
To
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