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81% of Health System Leaders Plan to Bump Up Their Investment in Remote Care Technology

Home Health Care

As the regulatory landscape continues to incentivize home-based care, health system leaders plan to beef up their investments in the space. Along these lines, 81% of decisionmakers intend to increase their investment in remote care technologies in the next 12 months. A similar 62% reported patient satisfaction.

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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration

HIT Consultant

DIABNEXT’s mobile app complements Glooko’s product portfolio and tracks diabetes data so that physicians can collaborate with their patients to monitor individual patient data and provide remote care. PointClickCare Technologies announce the closing of the acquisition of Audacious Inquiry , a connected care platform.

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Urgency-driven innovation in healthcare

Healthcare It News

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. Many organizations pivoted to allow nonessential workers to work remotely. They erected field hospitals in parking lots and converted nonclinical spaces into auxiliary ICUs to provide care to sick patients.

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Remote therapeutic monitoring is reimbursable – here's what you need to know

Healthcare It News

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare It News

In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home. The deal also provides CVS Health with a value-based care platform that connects payers to providers and providers to each other to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. Email: afox@himss.org.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 This leads to death and preventable hospitalizations, among other terrible outcomes.

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

Healthcare It News

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.