Telehealth News and Market Developments
HIT Consultant: (2/19) – An article in HIT Consultant examines best practices of a successful model transformation plan. Included in the recommendations suggests leveraging payment parity for telehealth from payers. The article further suggests health systems should freely share their results and notes the Alliance’s public call for data.
Amwell: (2/18) – Amwell announced the continued expansion of its platform with the release of the Hospital TV 100. Designed to further expand integrated telehealth connectivity via the Amwell platform, the new Carepoint device enables hospitals to turn existing televisions into telehealth endpoints. Intermountain Healthcare has deployed Amwell's new Carepoint telehealth device across 1,200 of its hospital TVs, creating new virtual care end points for clinicians and patients.
Healthcare IT News: (2/17) – Helio Health is using telehealth to solve access issues for their Medicaid population. "People like it, they've gotten used to it and they're comfortable with it," says the behavioral health provider's CIO. "Telehealth is going to be a permanent part of our care model."
MobiHealthNews: (2/15) – Current Health, a remote patient monitoring platform, has launched Community, its latest initiative to build diverse longitudinal datasets for decentralized clinical trials. Using its FDA-cleared remote monitoring system, Current Health collects hospital-level data such as respiratory rate, heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and movement without asking the patient to leave home.
PRNewswire: (2/16) – Connect America, a provider of connected health solutions, today its partnership with Urban Health Plan to bring remote patient monitoring (RPM) services to patients living in the underserved communities of the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan.
PRNewswire: (2/16) – ObvioHealth, a global Virtual Research Organization (VRO), announced its next generation platform offering enhanced remote patient monitoring capabilities for the company's end-to-end decentralized clinical trial solutions. "The flexibility of ObvioHealth's decentralized solutions is accelerating the transition from site-centric clinical trials to virtual ones,” said Ivan Jarry, ObvioHealth's CEO.
Foley & Lardner: (2/15) – The Public Health Emergency introduced a myriad of changes to federal and state telemedicine and digital health laws and rules. But one change, signed into law in the last days of December 2020, has raised confusion (and eyebrows) in the telemental health provider community. Nathaniel Lacktman discusses the problematic language which requires a previous in-person visit. The Alliance has advocated against this provision.
UC San Diego: (2/15) – Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart rate while measuring the wearer’s levels of glucose as well as lactate, alcohol or caffeine. It is the first wearable device that monitors cardiovascular signals and multiple biochemical levels in the human body at the same time.
Healthcare IT News: (2/15) – NYU Langone Health used its FCC grant to expand Epic-linked telehealth. The health system was conducting around 25 to 50 virtual visits a day; at the height of the pandemic, that rose to nearly 8,000. It worked with Cisco, Apple and others for clinician-to-clinician video.
MobiHealthNews: (2/15) – Dexcom, a medtech device company best known for its continuous glucose monitoring systems, is launching a new venture fund aimed at sensing tech, data analytics, remote patient monitoring and population health.
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