Tag: remote patient monitoring

NEW YORK – DarioHealth has entered into an agreement to provide its remote patient monitoring solution to Presbyterian Medical Services, an integrated health care system in New Mexico, starting Jan. 1. The partnership will provide patients living with chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, to access Darion’s AI-powered digital therapeutic tools and care. “Adding Dario’s RPM solution with personalized digital journeys can engage patients and help them...

LAFAYETTE, La. – Viemed Healthcare has acquired a 5% interest in Verustat for $600,000, giving it a platform to enter the remote monitoring space.  Viemed will use Verustat’s RPM solution in conjunction with its own proprietary patient engagement platform (PEP), which has shown to improve patient compliance, along with labor and workflow efficiencies, according to preliminary data.   “The pandemic has...

Shelly Prial will be remembered for a number of things, including being the “show ambassador” for Medtrade. I’ll remember him for the bow ties – and his passion for telehealth. When he was still with us, I fielded calls from Prial, sometimes weekly, about how teleahealth was the wave of the future and how HME providers needed to carve out a niche for themselves in this new market. This is from a Q&A we did with Prial way back in 2006: HME News: Where can HME providers...

MINNEAPOLIS – rtNOW, which has offered tele-respiratory solutions to hospitals since 2016, has now launched HME On-Call to help HME providers better manage RT shortages that have only intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic.  With HME On-Call, providers can outsource everything from after-hours staffing to equipment setup on a per-call basis, plus an initial implementation fee.  “We’re...

YARMOUTH, Maine - There's “an explosion” in remote patient monitoring and HME providers need to have a firm grasp of the market if they want to benefit from the trend, says Dr. Richard Popiel. “I would encourage you to understand the market and what people are trying to do with the treatment plan,” said Popiel, senior advisor at McKinsey & Company and a member of CareCentrix's strategic advisory board.?“How do you monitor that? If you are delivering care at home and...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Verustat, the latest venture from Rich Roberts, Emmet Seibels and Steve Goode, wants HME providers to be their “eyes and ears” for physicians looking for a remote patient monitoring solution to improve patient care. Verustat, which launched this fall as a vendor partner with VGM & Associates, will pay providers management fees for introducing their company and its RPM solution to physicians, and helping the company facilitate and manage those relationships. “We...

WATERLOO, Iowa - VGM & Associates has added Verustat, a remote patient monitoring platform, to its offerings of vendor partners. “VGM & Associates recognizes the shift occurring in the industry and providers looking for solutions to leverage technology and refine workflows,” said Clint Geffert, president of VGM & Associates. “We didn't have to look far to recognize and re-partner with the founders of Verustat, Rich Roberts, Emmet Seibels and Steve Goode.” The trio has also...

DOWNEY, Calif. - SuperCare Health has collaborated with Optum to create a COVID-19 telemonitoring program that allows asymptomatic patients to be monitored and to recover in their homes, avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations.Close respiratory monitoring is vital to setting up alternative care for people who are confirmed for, or potentially have, COVID-19 but who don't require hospitalization, says Dr. Curtis Sather, medical director and pulmonologist at Optum.“I knew SuperCare Health had the...

NEW YORK - DarioHealth has entered into a new strategic partnership with Williams Medical to make the DarioHealth Remote Patient Monitoring digital therapeutics platform available to health care professionals across the U.K. and Ireland. The RPM solution integrates Dario's open platform, application technology and coaching platform to allow healthcare professionals to monitor patients remotely. “Dario's digital solution is intended to provide relief for primary and secondary care providers...

ELMIRA, N.Y. - Gerould's Healthcare Services will launch a remote patient monitoring program for COPD patients in December that builds on the provider's increasing focus on value-based care.Using a device such as a tablet, laptop or phone, patients will answer a series of questions and, depending on their answers, will be given a color-coded score, says Cheryl Henninger, director of Gerould's Healthcare Services and Community Cares Health Solutions.“If it's green and they are short of breath,...