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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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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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5G’s Role in Improving Quality and Reach of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Robin Manke-Cassidy, Director, Solution Marketing at Cradlepoint In the world of healthcare, new technologies aren’t just about being on the cutting edge of the latest trend. It’s about how technology can improve care and expand the reach of quality care through unprecedented methods. billion by 2030.

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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.

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

Healthcare It News

used telehealth to provide care to patients with acute disease and 34.3% used telehealth for preventative care visits. "There was a great deal of variation within specialty, with large shares of physicians who didn't provide any remote visits the prior week. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.