Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is revolutionizing healthcare by enabling continuous, real-time tracking of patients’ health outside of traditional clinical settings. Read our Remote Patient Monitoring special issue to know how RPM has transformed the care delivery model by allowing healthcare providers to monitor chronic conditions, detect early warning signs, and adjust treatments remotely.
Through connected devices and digital health platforms, RPM enhances patient engagement, improves adherence to treatment plans, and reduces hospital readmissions. Discover how this innovative approach to healthcare is reshaping care delivery, making it more proactive, personalized, and efficient, while improving patient outcomes and reducing costs.
Modivcare Monitoring: VRI PERS & Vitals Monitoring Plus Higi’s Community Platform & Clinical Network
With the digitization of almost every aspect of our lives and increasing discrepancies in care access for vulnerable populations across the U.S., digital and virtual care platforms have been redefining how healthcare providers imagine extending quality care beyond traditional clinical ...
The Future of Integrated Virtual Care…
It’s not as far off as it seems. In fact, it’s at your fingertips. By Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer, Essentia Health Digital Care is here to stay. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated change to a new model of care; ...
The Remote Revenue Cycle
By Richard L. Childs, FHFMA, VP RCM, Atrium Health-Floyd Medical Center One positive thing we have learned from the global pandemic is that Revenue Cycle teammates and work can be very effectively accomplished in a remote work environment. I believe ...
Drop the wires, but don’t leave the patient behind
By Isaiah Nathaniel, CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health March 11, 2020 is when the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. Since that time, we have witnessed and watched as one of the most resilient sectors ...
UCHealth CARE Innovation Partnership Drives Innovation in Wearable Technology
By Richard Zane, M.D., Chief Innovation Officer, Sarah Wendel, M.D., Administration, Operations, and Quality Fellow & Adeel A. Faruki M.D., Operations, Executive Leadership, and Innovation Fellow, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus When healthcare professionals at the University of Colorado ...
Health Equity and Telehealth
By Raymond Lowe, SVP/ CIO, AltaMed Health Services Before 2020 there had been forward-thinking discussions on the consumerism of medicine, but the pandemic forced providers to focus on patient-centric care through telehealth, chatbots, remote consults, remote patient monitoring, and rich ...
Remote monitoring helps COVID patients at home, where they heal best
By Lance M. Owens, CMIO, Metro Health This happened almost overnight: The federal Centers for Disease Control reported a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared to the same period in 2019. With hospitals ...
A Powerful Feature of Digital Technology Applied to Medicine
By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS Physician Solutions Informaticisit, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston The pandemic has dramatically changed where we work and how we work with one another, with our patients and their families, and with ...
QT Medical-Remote 12-Lead ECG: A Replacement, Not An Alternative!
Dr. Ruey-Kang Chang, CEO What seemed like a page out of a fantasy fiction novel or sci-fi creation is now a reality. Thanks to technology, particularly in healthcare, a significant part has moved to the patients’ homes. The level of ...
Remote Care: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
By Dhrumil Shah, CMIO, Compass Medical Healthcare has never been considered an industry easy to disrupt or willing to embrace innovation. It took a global pandemic to change healthcare as we know it today and I am certain that we ...
Remote Patient Monitoring in the age of COVID-19
By Alka Kohli, MD, MBA, EVP & Chief Population Health and Clinical Officer, Inspira Health While the health care industry has always championed and driven innovation, the COVID-19 pandemic has advanced and accelerated the pace at which many technologies have ...
Covid-19, Remote Workers, and Technology in 2020 and Beyond
By Rose Chaperon, Ph.D., MSHL, HLRM, Vice President of Revenue Cycle, Mercy Iowa City Hospital Having worked in many different environments over the years, from remote, critical access, Indian health, and large suburban hospitals, I have seen how technology has ...
A Pandemic’s Impact on Organizational Innovation
By Sandra Powell-Elliott, MBA, Vice President, Life Sciences and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack Meridian Health system is an integrated, not-for-profit health care network comprised of three large academic teaching hospitals, two children’s hospitals, 12 other hospitals across the state ...
Remote Patient Monitoring and Impacts with COVID-19
By Tara Matthews, CIO-CISO, Einstein Healthcare Network Prior to COVID-19, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) was primarily used for the chronic care business model in a telehealth strategy. The key use cases were heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as ...
University of Miami Health System Using Remote Monitoring Tool for Home Hospitalization
By David W. Reis, Ph.D., CIO, University of Miami Health System 2020 will be remembered for years to come for several reasons. Among them will undoubtedly be the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. The nature of COVID-19 has given rise ...
How has the COVID-19 Pandemic changed the way we live?
By Lynn Gibson, VP/Chief Technology Officer, Christus Health The vocabulary of springtime has changed from talks of summer vacations to shelter in place and social distancing. Thoughts of open concerts and beaches are being replaced with home repair projects and ...
IDSolutions – Taking Patient Observation to Brand New Heights
Tracy Mills, Founder & President The role of patient sitters in healthcare is indispensable. They offer round-the-clock monitoring for patients that require critical care, improve a patient’s safety and hospital stay, and free up medical staff to focus on clinical ...
The future of Health Care is Connected Care
By Samuel Alfano, Medical Director, Clinical Informatics at Crozer Keystone Health System Connected Health Care often refers to Technology Enabled Care, where the use of new technology aims to enable patients access healthcare remotely, outside of traditional models of care ...
A CIO’s story of managing COVID-19 – AltaMed Health Services
By Ray Lowe, SVP/CIO at AltaMed Health Services In February 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak wasn’t well understood as news reports from Wuhan, China continued to develop. I recall my CMIO and I were getting ready for HIMSS, which was scheduled ...
The Secret to Successful EHR Adoption
By Beverly Jordan, Vice President and Chief Information and Transformation Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care While electronic health records are mandated under the Affordable Care Act, the real key to making an EHR beneficial for everyone is understating how it works ...
Telehealth Adoption: Helping Care Teams Better Serve Their Patients and Communities
By Mark Crandall, Chief Information Officer, Consulate Health Care At the nexus of Healthcare and Technology emerges solutions aimed to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction, while making the jobs of clinicians safer and more effective. The primary driver of these ...