Tag: Remote Patient Monitoring
Movano secures clearance for pulse ox
December 2, 2024HME News Staff
PLEASANTON, Calif. – Movano Health has announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the pulse oximeter in its EvieMED Ring. The company says the clearance enables it to pursue multi-billion-dollar business opportunities for health monitoring solutions needed for applications such as clinical trials, post-clinical trial management and remote patient monitoring for both health care providers and payers. "We launched the Evie Ring in the consumer wearable market, but our...
Tenovi looks to lower cost of care
September 20, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – For tech company Tenovi, the “real magic” of remote patient monitoring is the end result – improved quality of life for patients, says Iftah Mashav, vice president of growth & partnerships.
Tenovi recently partnered with Trividia Health to offer Trividia’s TrueMetrix Air blood glucose meter to its health care, payer and other organizations.
“If, by lowering the cost the total cost of care, we're able to offer treatment and...
Tenovi, Trividia partner on diabetes device
August 21, 2024HME News Staff
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Tenovi, a provider of remote patient monitoring solutions, has partnered with Trividia Health, a manufacturer of store-brand diabetes products, to offer the True Metrix Air blood glucose meter to telehealth, chronic care, software and RPM services organizations to enable more efficient and affordable monitoring for diabetic patients. “Trividia Health is renowned for accurate and cost-effective solutions for diabetes management," said Nizan Friedman, PhD., founder...
OIG warns of RPM scam
November 27, 2023HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The Office of Inspector General has posted a consumer alert about a fraud scheme involving monthly billing for remote patient monitoring. The OIG says unscrupulous companies are signing up Medicare beneficiaries for monitoring using medical devices like scales, glucose monitors, blood pressure cuffs, cardiac rhythm devices and other equipment, regardless of medical necessity. The agency says these companies are signing up bennies for these services in several ways, including phone...
Best Buy Health, Geisinger partnership ‘makes difference,’ execs say
September 18, 2023HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS and DANVILLE, Pa. – Best Buy Health and Geisinger will expand their work together to bring in-home care for patients with chronic conditions.
Beginning in July 2022, Best Buy Health and Geisinger began deploying specially trained Geek Squad Agents to deliver, install and activate remote care management devices in a program that now involves 300 Geisinger patients. While in the home, agents educate patients on the technology in their care plan, answer questions about...
As they say, watch this space
March 31, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
As we were working on the April issue, Best Buy Health announced a new partnership with Atrium Health to provide remote patient monitoring, telehealth and patient management technology for the health system’s hospital-at-home program.
It turns out Atrium Health, which reportedly has the largest such program in the country, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Best Buy Health’s care-at-home solution, Current Health, also has partnerships with five of the 10 largest health...
Reaction to Best Buy Health partnerships: ‘HME companies must innovate’
March 31, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Best Buy Health’s recent partnerships with five of the 10 largest health systems to provide remote monitoring, telehealth and patient engagement services in the home is a sign the big box retailer is crossing over into HME territory, according to 77% of the respondents to a recent HME Newspoll.
Most recently, Best Buy, which acquired Current Health in 2021 and before that GreatCall in 2018, announced in March that it had a new partnership with Atrium Health,...
Traccom signs remote patient monitoring agreement
July 5, 2022HME News Staff
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Traccom has signed an agreement with Diabetic Direct to be a primary supplier of its MedicalPro remote patient monitoring device. Diabetic Direct provides a fully automated life insurance portal specifically for people with diabetes, making it easy for them to acquire same day, full coverage. “This supply agreement letter of intent represents a significant opportunity for the company to gain a presence in this critical segment of the U.S. health care market that...
Withings partners with athenahealth on RPM solution
June 9, 2022HME News Staff
BOSTON – Withings Health Solutions has partnered with athenahealth to make its remote patient monitoring available to plan members through athenahealth’s Marketplace program.
“Withings RPM focuses on simplicity for clinicians and patients, which has been the missing ingredient in the RPM industry until now,” said Antoine Robiliard, vice president of Withings Health Solutions. “Now, athenahealth users can access Withings RPM and experience its ease-of-use at...
JAMA article highlights remote monitoring
April 19, 2022HME News Staff
IRVINE, Calif. – A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that, through recent technological advances in remote monitoring, a patient’s physiological needs can now more often be the primary factor in determining the level of monitoring they receive, rather than their physical location (i.e., the monitoring capabilities of the beds in a particular hospital care area). The article, “Remote Patient Monitoring During COVID-19: An Unexpected Patient...