Telehealth
Telehealth has the potential to help rural patients remotely access specialized healthcare that's often only available to those in large metropolitan areas — but convincing payers like Medicare to cover these services has proved challenging.
Here are seven things to know about how remote patient monitoring can be used to improve clinical outcomes in healthcare.
Fairfield, Calif.-based NorthBay Healthcare joined forces with UbiCare, a Boston-based technology company focused on patient engagement, to create the "Baby Steps by NorthBay" program.
Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center recently implemented telestroke and teleICU services to improve its emergency care, the Longview News-Journal reports.
New Jersey veterinarians are speaking out against a bill that would allow all healthcare practitioners to establish a "bona fide relationship" with their patients via telemedicine, reports the Veterinary Information Network.
Mental health apps are increasingly gathering user data to improve functionality, but some experts are concerned the data mining techniques may infringe on patient privacy, reports Bloomberg.
David Chmura. Director of IT at Copper Queen Community Hospital (Bisbee, Ariz.). Copper Queen Community Hospital is in the small mining town of Bisbee, which is 92 miles southeast of Tucson. As IT manager at the 14-bed hospital, Mr. Chmura oversees…
Fredrick Peet. CIO of Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center. Mr. Peet became CIO of 406-bed Yuma Regional Medical Center in 2015 after serving as the hospital’s director of IT and interim CIO. Under Mr. Peet’s leadership, Yuma Regional partnered with Arizona…
Fifty-nine percent of patients who have accessed telemedicine in the past plan to increase their usage of remote visits during the remainder of 2017, according to a survey by the medical products distributors trade group Health Industry Distributors Association.
UT Health San Antonio (Texas) launched a 12-week pilot program to provide in military families with remote counseling.