Tag: Remote Patient Monitoring
Nonin Medical marks 40 years in business
March 26, 2026HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS – Nonin Medical is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, marking four decades of offering patient monitoring solutions, including the first pulse oximeter, to clinicians, sleep specialists, home care providers, respiratory therapists, and OEM customers worldwide. The company was founded in 1986 by engineer and entrepreneur Phil Isaacson. “From the very beginning, our goal was to give clinicians data they could depend on without question,” said Isaacson. “Trust...
OIG report urges monitoring of remote patient monitoring
September 2, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The use of remote patient monitoring continued to grow in 2024, with Medicare payments exceeding $500 million, according to a new report from the HHS Office of Inspector General.
Other key takeaways from the report:
Monitoring billing can help safeguard the Medicare program and prevent fraud, waste and abuse.
Billing that may warrant further scrutiny includes billing for a high proportion of enrollees who have no prior history with the medical practice...
Prevounce Health hits RPM milestone
March 10, 2025HME News Staff
INDIANAPOLIS – Prevounce Health, a provider of remote care management software, devices and services, has announced that patients have now transmitted more than 15 million vital readings using the company’s Pylo remote patient monitoring devices. Pylo RPM devices, which include blood pressure monitors, weight scales, blood glucose meters and pulse oximeters, are clinically validated, come with 5G/4G-LTE cellular connectivity and seamlessly transmit readings to the Prevounce remote care...
PHM bets on remote monitoring, 'marriage’ with hospitals
January 10, 2025Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
KENT, Wash. – Performance Home Medical plans to use an additional $55 million investment from Grant Avenue Capital to shift its business from value-based care to “outcome-related payments,” says CEO Larry Mastrovich.
To help make that shift, the company plans to invest in remote patient monitoring, which fits in neatly with its core disease state management platform for COPD and obstructive sleep apnea patients.
“We’re looking to develop a care model...
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...