On Tuesday, Price Waterhouse Cooper's Health Research Institute (HRI) released an industry brief on how recent regulatory action may be the catalyst to spur the fledgling telehealth market. In October 2014, the federal government expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services, including remote chronic care management and an addition of seven new covered procedure codes for telehealth, including annual wellness visits, psychotherapy and prolonged services in the office.
Providers are
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Technology
New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs
Welch Allyn, a provider medical diagnostic device company, announced it has developed a new patient monitor for physician’s offices that fully automates vital signs capture and wireless data transfer to your EMR. The solutions aligns with the population health management objective to keep a patient population as healthy as possible, reducing the need for more expensive tests, procedures and office visits that add additional costs to the system. In order to do this effectively, data automation
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Continuum Health Alliance Selects Caradigm for Population Health
Caradigm, a provider of enterprise population health, today announced that Continuum Health Alliance, a physician enablement company providing practice management, population health and community care services to provider groups, has selected Caradigm as part of its population health strategy.
Continuum provides a next-generation health platform, enabling independent physician organizations, hospital-based physician groups, commercial accountable care organizations (ACOs) and MSSP ACOs to
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ZeOmega Acquires HealthUnity To Close Gaps in Interoperability
On Monday, population health management provider ZeOmega announced the acquisition of HealthUnity, a provider of interoperability solutions that enable providers, payers and public health organizations to streamline the secure exchange of patient data across disparate systems. HealthUnity offerings also include private and public HIE, master person index, referral management and patient consent to integrated delivery networks (IDNs), health systems, group practices and state collaboratives.
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Mount Sinai Health System Launches Telehealth Pilot Projects
Using secure digital conferencing technology, patients can now manage their health, meet with physicians, and receive advice from Mount Sinai Health System experts – all without setting foot in a doctor’s office. These initiatives are part of NYC-based Mount Sinai’s growing new telehealth offerings, which help provide comprehensive, cost-effective care through the use of technology.
Telehealth Pilot Projects
Among the first Telehealth pilot projects to get underway, the Primary Care Program
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Independa Raises $6.1M to Expand Remote Care for Seniors
Independa, a provider of community engagement and remote care technologies for seniors announced it has closed its $6.1 million in Series B funding. The remote care provider plans to utilize the capital to immediately accelerate Independa’s market expansion, while also funding new product development and advancing innovative solutions.
The company recently entered the consumer market by making its Independa TV available to anyone who is struggling to provide remote care for
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New Telehealth Tablet Provides Clinical Collaboration Within Hospitals
American Well, a national telehealth provider has announced the initial rollout of a new Telemed Tablet that enhances clinical collaboration within hospitals or large practice settings. The touchscreen telehealth tablet solution will utilize American Well's patented technology to instantly locate and engage available specialists within the hospital ecosystem.
The portable, slim and bright tablet is designed to encourage all members of a care team, as well as the patient, to participate in
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Cleveland Clinic, Cox Partner to Deliver Telehealth & Home Health Solutions
Broadband and cable TV provider, Cox Communications and Cleveland Clinic have announce the formation of Vivre Health, a strategic alliance to bring world-class healthcare to the home through innovative telehealth and home health solutions.
The joint venture will help further increase Cox's market footprint by expanding into healthcare to provide remote patient monitoring, telehealth visits and other in-home monitoring and treatment services via broadband. The cable TV provider already
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Top 4 Population Health Management Challenges
As the healthcare delivery model shifts towards value based healthcare, the need for effective population health management solutions continues to grow. However, for many providers choosing the right PHM solution is still uncharted territory and the correct path isn't always clearly marked. According to a recent Chilmark Research report, healthcare organizations are currently struggling with evolving models of reimbursement while PHM vendors have yet to successfully build solutions to fully meet
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Can Esther Dyson’s Way to Wellville Challenge Improve Population Health?
It may not be a proper clinical trial, but the Way to Wellville is the beginning of something transformative for health. Esther Dyson explains.
Do you know the way to Wellville? If not, Esther Dyson hopes to point you in the right direction. Dyson, a journalist and technology investor turned wellness enthusiast, is on a mission to better health by rethinking and recreating the environment in which it can thrive. It’s a tall task, but Dyson isn’t doing it alone. In fact, she wants you to take
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