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The virtual models will help researchers develop more personalized treatment plans, predict health outcomes, monitor chronic conditions and streamline drug development, a new report shows.
Healthcare organizations also want continuous monitoring and better inventory management from their remote patient monitoring systems.
Through its virtual care and remote monitoring programs, University of Alabama at Birmingham has increased the census and case-mix index of rural hospitals, among other successes.
The company says it will concentrate on its home healthcare coordination platform that connects patients, providers and payers with HME suppliers.
What can be expected in healthcare and health IT? What should CIOs and other health IT leaders be doing to address new virtual care challenges? An expert consultant has answers.
That's for coronary artery bypass grafting patients at Atrium Health's Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, compared with a national average of 2.5%. Remote patient monitoring also has reduced 30-day readmissions by 40%.
Bronwyn Spira is CEO and cofounder of Force Therapeutics, a digital care management platform for musculoskeletal conditions.
The IT director at the Central Ohio provider describes how telemedicine capabilities were built up from scratch to become an important part of practice.
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The Federal Trade Commission proposes including more vendors of personal health records that access or send unsecured PHR-identifiable data in its rule governing health data sharing and unauthorized protected health information disclosure notifications.
Working with Telemetrix and Remote Care Partners, the Atlanta health system is enabling cloud-based data exchange between home patient monitoring devices and its electronic health records.
