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When It Comes to Digital Health, Experience Is Everything

HIT Consultant

Aniket Singh Rajput, Founder and CEO of Neuroglee. Thanks to COVID-19 and numerous other factors, the adoption of digital health technologies used by patients in the home has skyrocketed. Accenture reported in 2021, for example, that remote patient monitoring technology adoption tripled among patients. Whether it is streaming video telehealth appointments with a provider, a remote patient monitoring platform, or a prescribed digital therapeutic to manage a chronic condition, the emphasis must be

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The Home Health Proposed Rule’s Impact on M&A Activity

Home Health Care

With the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new proposed payment rule, buyers and sellers in the M&A industry will be proceeding with caution. Home health insiders told Home Health Care News that while the proposed rule is sure to create some pause in overall activity, it shouldn’t be considered a doom-and-gloom scenario.

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Monday Morning Update 6/27/22

HIStalk

Top News The White House signs the VA Electronic Health.

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Contessa Partners With Memorial Hermann Health System To Deliver Home-Based, Hospital-Level Care

Home Health Care

Contessa Health, an Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) company, has teamed up with Memorial Hermann Health System to provide home-based care services to its patients. Specifically, the partnership will allow Memorial Hermann to deliver acute hospital care, post-hospitalization skilled nursing care and palliative care services in the home setting. This new offering will increase accessibility for the organization’s patients, according to Dr.

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Where is Google investing in health?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The Economist has an interesting article on Alphabet (formerly known as Google) and their ventures into the health care industry. Some highlights. Alphabet is the fifth-highest-ranking business in the Nature Index, which measures the impact of scientific papers, in the area of life sciences, behind four giant drugmakers and 20 spots ahead of Microsoft, the only other tech giant in the running.

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Home Health Industry Pushes Back on CMS Budget-Neutrality Methodology for PDGM

Home Health Care

Since the release of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed payment rule, home health stakeholders have been sitting in their respective “war rooms” trying to navigate the proposal. As providers geared up for the unveiling of the proposal, many knew that CMS’ analysis of whether the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) led to higher, lower or equal spending compared to the old payment model would be a major factor, according to William A.