Connected Health
The latest report from the Productivity Commission notes the "slow" uptake of remote care technologies despite wide availability.
Also, IHH Healthcare is now offering AI-based sleep monitoring solutions.
By 2030, there is projected to be a shortage of 120,000 cardiologists in the U.S. Combined with the decline in hospital beds and rising cost of heart failure, healthcare organizations need to find a way to detect heart failure earlier and at lower cost.
Four telehealth experts discuss the roles of AI, collaboration, hybrid care, regulation and more as presented at this week's American Telemedicine Association annual conference.
The promise of telehealth has not been fully realized in populations with great health inequities, a new study shows, with the same factors that lead to poor health and poor access contributing to low use of digital health services.
Digital transformation of healthcare not only requires investments in digital technology, but also in digital health literacy. This must be coordinated across three critical levels: individual, institutional and policy-making.
Only 0.6% of remote encounters managed by the health system's remote patient monitoring vendor's caregivers escalate to Providence clinicians. Hypertension RPM patients saw a 12.55% reduction in systolic blood pressure by week 12.
If the CPT Editorial Panel approves new changes and Medicare and private payers follow suit, providers that expand their remote patient monitoring programs to fit the new codes will gain the most benefits for their patients and clinics.
Island Hospital in Malaysia is building a technology-driven integrated health ecosystem in a bid to lower healthcare costs.
The company's chief financial officer, Mala Murthy, will step in as acting CEO.
