Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become an integral part of modern healthcare, utilizing wearable devices to track patients' conditions outside the clinic or hospital setting. Devices like these collect critical information from patients, such as their heart rate, activity levels, and temperature, which providers can use for real-time insights to guide treatment and identify conditions proactively.
Due to the technology’s inherent advantages, providers and researchers have increasingly
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InfoBionic Partners with Mayo Clinic to Enhance AI Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
What You Should Know:
- InfoBionic, a digital health company providing AI-powered diagnostic remote patient monitoring solutions has entered into an agreement with Mayo Clinic to incorporate its extensive know-how in cardiac patient monitoring, AI-ECG, and virtual telemetry to optimize and build upon its existing monitoring platform.
- The collaboration aims to enhance InfoBionic's current proprietary AI algorithms and analytics capabilities to provide more personalized and
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SohoMD, Withings Integrate to Enhance Mental Health through Remote Monitoring
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SohoMD, the foremost online mental health platform focused on comprehensive biological psychiatry, today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Withings Health Solutions, the Healthcare division of Withings, the global leader in at-home connected health.Conceived as part of a holistic approach to mind/body behavioral healthcare, this is the first time a nationally focused online mental health platform has entered into a direct relationship with a
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Debunking 3 Myths About Virtual Care to Drive Health Equity
Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies - including RPM - continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.
It’s time to take a look at some of the myths holding back the adoption of virtual care and remote patient engagement tools and limiting progress toward achieving the interconnected goals of the Quintuple Aim.
If there’s a silver
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Doccla Acquires OpenTeleHealth, Expanding in 12 Markets – M&A
What You Should Know:
- London-based virtual ward technology provider Doccla today announced the acquisition of medically certified cloud-based platform OpenTeleHealth (OTH).
- Founded in 2015, OpenTelehealth is a universal cloud-based remote patient monitoring platform that enables patients to measure health data at home, using an app and a wide range of medical measurement devices. Doctors can view patient data on a web portal.
- Doccla has swiftly become the leading virtual
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Biobeat RPM Integrates with Epic EHR to Enhance Vital Signs Data Transfer
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Biobeat, a global provider of wearable remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions for the healthcare continuum, announced its Epic EHR integration completion.The Epic EHR integration allows patient's vital signs to transfer from the Biobeat RPM devices directly to the EHR, reducing the medical staff's burden and enhancing their workflow.
Epic EHR Integration Benefits
Biobeat team estimates that by using their devices and system in the hospital settings they can
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Remote Patient Monitoring: Providers Test Solutions in Rapidly Evolving Market
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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has demonstrated promising outcomes†—including earlier intervention and reduced utilization, outcomes that are critical in value-based care arrangements. The options for RPM are rapidly evolving, with many factors for healthcare organizations to consider. Reimbursement is an ongoing question, with some healthcare organizations feeling they can’t rely solely on reimbursement from CPT codes.A new report by KLAS explores the customer
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HealthSnap Secures $9M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
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HealthSnap, a Miami-based remote patient monitoring platform for chronic disease management raises $9M in funding led by Asclepius Growth Capital, an SPV founded by David Jahns, a managing director of Galen Partners, and Steve Cashman, CEO of Caption Health and former CCO of InTouch Health, as well as new strategic investments from current business partners UnityPoint Health and Tampa General Hospital. Existing stockholders Florida Funders and MacDonald Ventures also
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Expectations For The Connected Care Business In The Years Ahead
Though we seldom see their use in our modern world and, even then, only in fiction, there was a time when it was common for people to actually use things like crystal balls and divining rods to try to uncover unknown yet valuable information. As unbelievable as it may seem, soothsayers peered into crystal balls aiming to help seekers look into the future for guidance, while prospectors would rely earnestly on divining rods as they attempted to locate underground riches of water or oil.
While
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5 Digital Health Executives Share Their Key Takeaways from HIMSS23
John Erwin, CEO of Carenet Health
I was pleased with the robust turnout at HIMSS this year; it does seem like the healthcare industry is making up for the lost time from the pandemic. The topics that dominated the conference included teasing out the nuanced approach to safely deploying Chat GPT/AI into the industry (and when not to), health equity, and the patient journey. Workforce burnout continues to be a major issue in healthcare, though I think we could have
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