Health systems have had to scramble to discharge or move their hospital-at-home patients as CMS reimbursement for the program lapsed with the federal government shutdown. Healthcare organizations approved for the CMS waiver to provide acute hospital care at home had…
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Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Compassus have expanded their joint venture to provide home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services in California, creating a network of 19 locations across the state. The new entity will operate as Providence at Home…
Houston Methodist has partnered with Rice University to launch a three-year program aimed at expanding Texas’ digital health workforce. The initiative is supported by an approximately $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will run from Oct. 1…
A remote digital care program helped heart failure patients improve their medication compliance, according to a new study by Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health. In the clinical trial, 178 patients across seven health systems used blood pressure cuffs and scales connected…
Health systems continue to partner with Big Tech on AI and digital health projects. Here are 11 collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Cleveland Clinic is opening two practices with Amazon One Medical to continue expanding primary…
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Los Gatos, Calif.-based AmplifyMD raised $20 million in a series B funding round to expand its AI-enabled virtual care platform. The funding round was led by Forerunner Ventures and included F-Prime, Greylock, Tau Ventures and Memorial Hermann Health System, according…
At Morgantown-based West Virginia University Medicine, a physician in Morgantown could move from seeing a patient in their exam room to another in Summersville, then another in Princeton — all without leaving their chair. That kind of reach was unimaginable…
Cleveland Clinic is advancing its collaboration with Amazon One Medical to continue expanding primary care access in the market and learn more about the company’s digital innovations, a leader told Becker’s. The academic health system partnered with the tech giant’s…
The coming expiration of CMS’ hospital-at-home waiver is sowing confusion and uncertainty among health system executives who oversee the programs. Some leaders told Becker’s that if the CMS waiver expires Sept. 30 without an extension, they would have to end…
Cleveland Clinic has added 17 nurses since February to virtually monitor hospital-at-home patients. The health system is one of the nation’s largest providers of acute hospital care at home, a treatment model that requires clinicians to be available for video…