Disengaged and Disconnected: Why Most Remote Monitoring Programs Underperform
Many healthcare organizations are learning that creating an effective, scalable remote monitoring program is not easy. Most engage only about half of eligible patients. When patients do engage, providers struggle to keep them connected, find actionable insights in the data, and achieve optimal reimbursement.
How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes
By Bill Siwicki In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient’s response to a prescribed […]
You Are What Y’all Did With What You Eat
I recently listened to a great webinar on one of my favorite health experts, Dr. Robert Lustig, a neuro-endocrinologist and New York Times best-selling author (Fat Chance, The Hacking of the American Mind, and Metabolical). He has been active in promoting health policy to reverse the obesity and diabetes pandemic that is engulfing our society. […]
What will the next year look like for telehealth? ‘Well above pre-pandemic levels’
We spoke with a telemedicine expert to get a feel for where virtual care technology goes from here, and how near-term changes in healthcare might impact the ways it’s deployed.
Virtual Healthcare Is The Future – If Organizations Can Clear These Hurdles
Covid-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps.
Natural Detox Strategies
Did you know that there are over 15,000 man-made chemicals that are in our environment that our body doesn’t know what to do with? As humans, we have not evolved enough to deal with the bombardment of these toxins from the air, water, ground and the atmostphere. We know that toxins are harmful to our […]
How physicians can protect themselves from litigation risk from virtual care
With virtual care on the rise, physicians need to understand the risks when caring for patients.
Weekend Warrior Injury Prevention and Management: Part 2
As we age, our mind may say ‘yes’ but our body says ‘no’. If you love sports and activities but mostly enjoy them at the weekend, you may be a Weekend Warrior. In this blog, I will highlight some nutritional and supplement tips for injury prevention and management. You don’t have to stop doing what […]
Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities
It will soon offer the “full package” of hybrid virtual/in-person care in Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Boston, Insider reports, with more expansion to follow in 2022.
‘This genie is out of the bottle’: Why virtual care is here to stay
At a conference examining the future for virtual care, experts said more flexible care models will persist beyond the crisis conditions that drove their use.