Connected Health

As CMS signals longer-term changes in acute RPM reimbursement and Amazon teams with major providers to push for new policies, clinical and IT leaders should start planning ahead, says one expert. "Everyone has to be thinking about this."

Its telehealth and remote patient monitoring efforts, expanded to help with COVID-19 treatment, are improving care and the patient experience – and helping compliance with a new CMS program.

Minutes after the full Senate confirmed Xavier Becerra's cabinet nomination, advocacy groups were reminding him of the need to bring the American healthcare system "into the 21st century."

With its promise of virtual care in all 50 states, this is the first time a big tech firm will be directly in the healthcare services business. Will it be another failed experiment, or the breakthrough we've been waiting for?

In another reminder of the ongoing digital divide, the report shows that providers and policymakers need to think about health equity and help make sure virtual care works for everyone.

Remote patient monitoring linked to the EHR helps researchers reveal important discoveries about the differences in recovery between women of both races.

The goals of its virtual care program include improving access to specialty expertise, enhancing the patient experience, reducing costs and enhancing clinical outcomes.

Image sharing is finally advancing away from CD-ROMs and toward image-enabled personal health records, say Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality.

The rural health system's care teams use remote patient monitoring and their self-developed COVID Action Plan to improve the treatment of patients with the coronavirus.

With Moving Health Home, Amazon Care, Ascension, Intermountain, Landmark Health and others say they want to "change the way policymakers think about the home as a site of clinical service."