Tag: Remote monitoring
OIG: More oversight needed of remote patient monitoring
September 25, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS needs to provide more oversight of remote patient monitoring to ensure it is being used and billed properly, says a new report from the Office of Inspector General.
From 2019 to 2022, use of remote patient monitoring increased dramatically, from about 55,000 enrollees to 570,000. In 2022, payments for these services by traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage were more than $300 million, compared to just $15 million in 2019.
However, the OIG found 43% of...
Enabled Healthcare receives grant
January 4, 2023HME News Staff
SEATTLE, Wash. - Enabled Healthcare, a health care solution keeping patients with complex needs on Medicare and Medicaid healthy and at home through telemedicine, vitals monitoring and care coordination, was one of four startups to be awarded a grant of $50,000 from Village Capital’s ADAPT program, supported by the Metlife Foundation. ADAPT: Social Innovation for a More Resilient Future in the United States is a new accelerator program started this year to support the innovation and development...
Majority of consumers own connected health devices
August 8, 2022HME News Staff
ADDISON, Texas – Fifty four percent of U.S. Internet households own at least one connected health device and 23% own three or more, according to new consumer data from Parks Associates. Additionally, 57% of consumers find sharing device health data appealing and more than one in three seek care providers who offer this. “Driven by smart watch adoption, consumers and patients have become used to using devices to collect, transmit and interpret health data,” said Kristen Hanich,...
Project seeks to map activity of seniors
January 28, 2022Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A new project puts eyes in the homes of seniors living in rural areas to see what is happening in real time, says Rachel Proffitt of the University of Missouri and principal investigator.
“This is one of the first times putting (such monitoring) into the home and pushing it into the rural areas,” said Proffitt, an assistant professor in the MU School of Health Professions. “Everybody talks about precision health care and doing genetic sequencing and...
NHIA partner Eitan Medical: Remote monitoring is future of home infusion
December 29, 2021Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
The National Home Infusion Association recently welcomed Eitan Medical to its Future of Infusion Advisory Council, giving the small, global manufacturer of the Sapphire Infusion Pump and other products a window into what home infusion providers are facing.
“We want to listen and we want to hear what the providers are seeing, and we want collaborate with them and our peers,” said Ben Noonan, general manager, North America at Eitan Medical. “We want to be with NHIA to understand...
Hart Medical ahead of curve with TeleHart
March 29, 2021Tracy Orzel
GRAND BLANC, Mich. – While many businesses were left scrambling to develop safe business practices this time last year, Hart Medical Equipment was already rolling out its own secure telehealth platform, TeleHart.
The company began developing the platform, which educates customers remotely on CPAP/BiPAP, oxygen, glucometers, and nebulizers, in the fourth quarter of 2019 and launched it in March 2020.
“As an industry innovator, Hart utilizes a host of technologies,” said Stef...
Glooko raises $30M to accelerate growth
March 17, 2021HME News Staff
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Glooko, a provider of remote patient monitoring and chronic care management solutions including diabetes and obesity, has raised a $30 million Series D round of funding.
The company will use proceeds from the funding to accelerate organic growth and strategic initiatives across its product line of digital health solutions, including increasing adoption of is remote patient monitoring platform, widening commercialization of products...
Itamar Medical ‘jump starts’ RPM initiatives with Spry Health acquisition
January 14, 2021HME News Staff
CAESAREA, Israel – Digital health company Itamar Medical plans to buy San Francisco-based Spry Health, which makes a wrist-based remote monitoring solution.
Spry’s Loop System, a watch-like, home-based device, uses sensing technologies and algorithms that contextualize real-time, continuous physiologic data to flag signs of patient deterioration using bio-markers such as SpO2, respiration rate and heart rate. These three signals, combined...
Providers see remote monitoring in new light
October 16, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - Remote monitoring technology may be commonplace for home sleep therapy but it's also becoming more common for other therapies and for other uses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent HME Newspoll. Right behind CPAP devices in its use: ventilators and, increasingly, oxygen concentrators, respondents say. “We use remote monitoring for all PAP therapy and ventilators (if they have the capabilities),” wrote Sean Denning of Corner Home Medical in Minnesota,...
The T word
October 12, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
It wasn't intentional, but nearly every session at the virtual HME News Business Summit in September stressed the importance of providers leveraging technology to not only improve care but also make their businesses more efficient and profitable.
Sure, technology creeps up at the Summit every year and it's often the focus of a session or two, but never has it so dominated our entire event.
There were sessions at the Summit that I knew would focus on technology, like the keynote by Dr. Jacob Warren...