Telehealth
Healthcare providers and IT vendors in the region have weighed in with their predictions for healthcare technology in the new year.
A virtual care CEO says telemedicine means more physicians in the mix, enabling them to delegate less-complex tasks. Health systems should then be able to reduce wait times with that newly expanded capacity.
A change in administration isn’t the only thing that promises an interesting year. Editors from Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss what to look for in telehealth and RPM, and emerging policies in AI and cybersecurity.
Remote Patient Monitoring
As one telemedicine CEO looks to the year ahead, he predicts RPM will improve outcomes for congestive heart failure patients and help manage those on the wildly popular GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss medications.
Computer vision and sensor integration, evolution in virtual specialty care and other innovations are transcending the hype cycle and showing results, says one telehealth leader.
Stripped out of the final bill is a provision to prevent the 2.8% Medicare pay cut to physicians.
It will feature a 24/7 command centre, integrating the ICUs of small and medium hospitals.
The hospital, primarily based on virtual care, will be built by an Australian company.
Dr Chien-Tzung Chen, superintendent of Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, wants to establish a remote system to monitor patients at home using wearable devices.
The bipartisan continuing resolution announced on Monday offers "big wins" for virtual care, and the American Telemedicine Association and other healthcare groups are pleased.