The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) reported in late April that 97 percent of medical practices have experienced a negative financial impact directly or indirectly related to COVID-19.
This includes a 60 percent decrease in patient volume and a 55 percent decrease in revenue since the beginning of the pandemic, resulting in many practices forced to furlough or layoff staff.
Primary care physicians are experiencing diminished patient volumes which can be detrimental to a private practice that does not have a safety blanket from a large corporate … read more
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Patient engagement is closely tied to emotion. For example, when the symptoms of a chronic condition cause a health scare, pain or significantly impact a patient’s life and daily activities, that can trigger an emotional response. This often makes patients more engaged in their healthcare and behaviors.
However, healthcare providers would rather direct patients toward a path of better chronic condition management before such an issue occurs. The challenge then becomes to convince patients who don’t feel poorly or whose lives haven’t been adversely affected by a chronic condition yet to adhere to their care plan, such as taking needed medications and altering lifestyle behaviors such as diet and exercise.
Caremindr
Solution alerts employers and healthcare organizations of potential coronavirus symptoms. before work shifts begin to prevent spread within workplaces and communities
Healthcare IT News
Now more than ever, in the midst of a pandemic, healthcare IT leaders can use a comprehensive listing of companies that make technologies that help keep tabs on patients from afar.
Managed Healthcare Executive
In an increasingly competitive Medicare Advantage marketplace, Star Ratings and HEDIS scores have become more crucial than ever before. Learn how mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring can engage patients and change behaviors that can improve these performance measures.
Readmissions News
In this Thought Leaders’ Corner article, CAREMINDr CEO Harry Soza explains how mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring can be leveraged to create an “Accountable Dialogue” with patients. When this happens, patients are more likely to continue their medication—or at least let the physician know why they stopped so any issues can be addressed.
Becker’s Hospital Review
CAREMINDr’s CEO Harry Soza recently shared his valuable perspectives, predictions and advice on some important topics in Becker’s, one of the best-read healthcare media outlets in the market. The articles include:
20 health IT thought leaders speak out: top trends affecting healthcare and what to expect in 2019
29 HIMSS19 insights, innovations and disruptions
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst: When disaster strikes, health IT is there to help
Managed Healthcare Executive
Reporter Nicholas Hamm interviewed CAREMINDr CEO Harry Soza for this special report on how social determinants of health (SDOH) are becoming a bigger part of the healthcare dialogue—and how innovative technologies such as mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring (mRPM) are helping to flag and address SDOH issues.
Medical Economics
When Medicare’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) program launched a few years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offered to pay medical practices about $40 per patient per month (now $45) for between-visit management of Medicare patients with two or more chronic conditions. But relatively few primary care practices have taken on CCM. Mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring is an easy, efficient way to do that.
Becker’s Hospital Review
The latest version of the Apple Watch that has electrocardiogram capabilities is just one of the hundreds of wearable monitoring devices and countless apps now available. Mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring is an important tool when it comes to transforming this data deluge into a stream of meaningful and actionable insights.
AMGA Group Practice Journal
Baby Boomers are FitBit-using, Facebook-chatting professionals and retirees who regularly integrate mobile technology into their daily lives. So if group medical practices offer them a mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring solution to monitor their health in between appointments, many will embrace the idea and become more engaged in their own care.
Becker’s Hospital Review
New remote patient monitoring (RPM) codes for 2019 finally attach a definitive payment for general physiological remote monitoring of chronic conditions. As healthcare organizations introduce these programs, they will likely notice a powerful benefit: improved patient engagement due to “nudging” patients to report their outcomes via mobile-enabled RPM (mRPM).
Managed Healthcare Executive
Few healthcare stakeholders have extensive experience with remote patient monitoring (RPM), which means some dated misconceptions about RPM still linger in the industry. In an effort to combat those outdated beliefs, here are five interesting updates about RPM that you may not know.
BLinkedIn Healthcare Channel
The wearable health-monitoring device market is expected to reach $14.4 billion by 2022, up from $6.2 billion in 2017. Mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring is one way to harness the flow of patient-reported data and outcomes, for earlier and more meaningful interventions that can improve outcomes and save healthcare costs.
Healthcare IT News
In this article focusing on population health innovation by Bill Siwicki of HIMSS Media’s Healthcare IT News, Rutgers Health family physician Dr. Alfred Tallia explains how he’s using CAREMINDr’s mobile-enabled remote patient monitoring solution with his patients to significantly improve engagement and adherence and to achieve better outcomes.
Managed Healthcare Executive
CAREMINDr CEO Harry Soza is one of 15 healthcare executives who share in this fun slideshow their strategies to stay passionate about coming to work and keeping things positive and new.