Connected Health
From March 23 through July 20, Florida’s Millennium Physician Group has performed more than 90,000 telemedicine encounters – more than 30% of its total visits.
The project, launched by AVIA and former CMS chief Andy Slavitt, is focused first on examining where evidence-based care models can intersect with digital solutions.
Not only have the practice’s patients’ chronic health problems improved, but those patients stayed connected during COVID-19’s stay-at-home orders.
Today the high-profile provider is using its expansive, multistate telemedicine programs to best serve COVID-19 patients.
Medtronic says the acquisition means it will be able to offer AI-driven surgical planning, robotic assisted surgery and personalized spinal implants.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the usefulness of in-unit remote patient monitoring – and setting up systems doesn't always require complicated build-outs.
Death rates from cancer are higher in rural America – in part because of reduced access to high-quality care.
Digital health tools and investments offer great opportunity for efficiency improvements and better health outcomes in the country.
The two technologies are linked with biomedical equipment, the EHR and the laboratory information system to help improve outcomes.
The 14 federally funded regional TRCs have seen an enormous uptick in requests for assistance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.