Connected Health

Remote care delivery becomes more important as the senior population grows, agree four health IT experts in a HIMSS21 Digital panel.

Kajeet unveils an Internet of Things solution for secure and reliable delivery of telemedicine services. LifeScan and Fitbit offer people with diabetes virtual care to lead to healthy lifestyle changes.

TytoCare now operates within Epic's MyChart. Royal Philips debuts a new, cloud-based acute care telehealth system. And PatientPoint unveils a new suite of remote care management solutions.

New Salesforce "care from anywhere" innovations designed to improve patient access. Vivify Health offers new telemedicine automated CPT codes and video visit clinician scheduling.

The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers?

With help from $1.9 million in FCC telemedicine funding, it has monitored more than 18,000 patients since March 2020 while driving a Net Promoter Score greater than 70.

A physician expert in SDOH, analytics and patient connectivity talks about how the three must come together to better care for patients today and in the years ahead.

The agency has also awarded an additional $942,000 to the Sequoia Project to support its efforts as the interoperability initiative's recognized coordinating entity.

Remote patient monitoring technology also has helped the health system drop its 30-day readmission rate from 14% to 6%.

Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. For digital health startups to succeed in this space, they must get three factors right: cost, scale and quality.