What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai Health System will implement Current Health’s
remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution to allow oncology patients to recover
at home while being continuously and passively monitored by their care team.
- The implementation will reduce hospitalization events and prevent potential patient exposure to infection while bridging the digital health divide as more and more patients engage in telehealth.
Current Health
today announced that its remote patient
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DispatchHealth Launches New Clinic Without Walls for Enhanced Virtual Visits to MultiCare Patients
What You Should Know:
- DispatchHealth launches Clinic Without Walls, a new service line offering patients a telemedicine visit with in-person assistance for more complex medical visits.
- The initial service line will be available in a pilot to MultiCare patients in the Tacoma and Spokane areas in an effort to its senior patients' alternative visits during the pandemic.
DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home high-acuity medical care, today announced
the launch of Clinic Without
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Cerner, Banner Health, Xealth Partner to Simplify How Clinicians Prescribe Digital Health
What You Should Know:
- Cerner Corporation today announced with Xealth new
centralized digital ordering and monitoring for health systems, starting with
Banner Health, to foster digital innovation.
- Health systems can prescribe digital therapeutics, smartphones, and internet apps directly within the EHR to address areas such as chronic disease management, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery prep.
Cerner, today announced it’s building on the recent collaboration with
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Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense
Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average US patient could be forgiven for thinking that it is. Indeed, virtual visits to care providers and remote patient monitoring have been available for quite some time, delivering two key benefits:
- Providing a platform to address cost-efficiencies and accessibility to quality healthcare for the populace at large
- Playing a
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While We Wait for 5G, Is Wi-Fi or Cellular Better for RPM Solutions?
Many in the healthcare industry are keeping an eye on the rollout of 5G wireless, which promises to connect people and things at higher speed and lower latency. In the healthcare realm, this means high-resolution images such as CT scans and X-rays can be taken and transmitted instantaneously to doctors. But it also means good things for lower-bandwidth applications, such as the volumes of rich data found in home healthcare applications.
One of the beneficiaries of 5G will be remote
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8 Ways Advanced Analytics Can Help You Decide If Telehealth Should Be Temporary or Permanent
Over the past few months, primarily as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” for healthcare providers. The surge of COVID-19 patients in the spring, coupled with “stay-at-home” orders in many states, meant that many patients in need of care for chronic conditions and other non-emergent health issues were unable to visit their providers face-to-face.
Telehealth became the emergency solution, aided by relaxation of government regulations
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Sony Updates NUCLeUS Medical Imaging Platform to Support Remote Patient Observation
What You Should Know:
- Today, Sony announced an update to our NUCLeUS medical
imaging platform, which improves support for remote patient observation.
- NUCLeUS has added new functionality and features,
including powerful bi-directional telestration capabilities allowing multiple
remote users to simultaneously annotate, draw or highlight areas of interest in
a live stream video or still image.
Sony today
announced an update to its vendor-neutral medical imaging platform NUCLeUS.
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How Data-Driven Technology Holds The Promise of Better Outcomes for Vascular Patients
Abbott recently released global research on vascular patient care, designed to shine a light on the vascular patient journey. The report called “Beyond Intervention” uncovers the universal challenges faced by physicians who deliver vascular care, their patients, and the hospital administrators who support them. It also explores how the right use of technology and data could potentially enable more precise diagnoses and better treatment strategies to ensure the best possible patient
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AI Leads Way to Less False Positives on Remote Cardiac Monitoring Devices, Improved Results
What You Should Know:
- Cardiac patients and their cardiologists are
experiencing a high number of false positives with remote patient monitoring
devices as a result of signal artifact providing inaccurate data, which can
lead to many complications—other than medical, such as unnecessary tests and
increased medical costs.
- Ambulatory cardiac monitoring provider InfoBionic has devised a way to decrease false positives and increase efficiency.
Remote cardiac monitoring’s false
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Mayo Clinic Launches Vocal Biomarker Study for Pulmonary Hypertension Detection
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic announced a collaboration with Vocalis
Health to to research and develop new voice-based tools for screening, detecting
and monitoring patient health, beginning with a study to identify vocal
biomarkers to detect pulmonary hypertension (PH).
- The clinical validation study will utilize Vocalis
Health’s proprietary software, which can operate on any connected voice
platform (mobile, computer, tablet, etc.) to analyze patients’ health based on
voice
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