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The prolific health system is now able to offer telemedicine appointments to patients for primary care, urgent care and more than 70 specialties. More than 8% of total outpatient visits now are conducted virtually.

Health system officials say the remote patient monitoring acquisition will enable more of its patients to "age independently, comfortably and affordably."

The $100,000 grant will enable purchase of camera and microphones to help caregivers spot signs of trouble in hospital rooms and intervene when necessary.

 The move is a push by Optum and UHG to advance value-based care and expand into the home healthcare market.

Analyst John Gordon sheds some light on a new study examining virtual care use among Medicare beneficiaries from March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021.

The tech giant also provided an update on its artificial intelligence research and announced the expansion of YouTube's tools to mitigate the spread of health misinformation.

Find out why criminals are targeting patients at home, how criminals are trying to access hospital and health system RPM servers – and what CISOs and IT professionals should be doing to fight back.

It will use ConnectedLife's platform, paired with Fitbit, to track patients' health after surgery.

The low-acuity telemedicine video endpoint is designed to enable more affordable inpatient hybrid care delivery at scale. App vendor and IoT connectivity service offer remote patient monitoring.

HIMSS22 vendor news: The remote patient monitoring technology is presented by a 3D-animated caregiver. The virtual-reality telehealth technology is designed for hospitals or individual users.