Tag: Remote Patient Monitoring

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...

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...

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...

WATERLOO, Iowa – VGM & Associates has released its second playbook of 2022: “VGM Playbook: Growing Your Business with Data and Technology.” Topics in the playbook include using real-time data to optimize positive outcomes and grow your business, and leveraging remote patient monitoring. “There are many opportunities out there to enhance our way of doing business and positively impact consumer and clinician relationships, including the implementation of data and technology...

PHILADELPHIA – The addition of home pulse oximetry to remote monitoring for patients with test-confirmed COVID-19 did not result in a greater number of days alive and out of the hospital than subjective assessments of dyspnea alone, according to a trial conducted by physicians and other health care professionals at the University of Pennsylvania.  Twenty-eight physicians and other health care professionals from the Perelman School of Medicine published a letter to the editor in...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Verustat is in a position to start collecting data on the impact of its remote patient monitoring solution on health care costs now that it has more than 45 physician groups signed on, says Emmet Seibels.  “They range from a practice with 50 patients to a larger practice with several hundred, and they’re everywhere from New York City to Lafayette, La.,” said Seibels, president and co-founder. “The stories we’re hearing anecdotally are...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Verustat, which offers a full-service remote patient monitoring system, has expanded its services to provide multiple levels of support for decentralized clinical trials (DCT). Verustat's customizable SELECT DCT program is a streamlined solution that offers increased compliance, stability and accuracy in a single, customizable source, the company says. "The launch of Verustat's DCT platforms marks an important evolution in our pursuit to modernize the way clinical...

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Clear Arch Health, a division of MobileHealth and a provider of remote patient monitoring and mobile personal emergency response system solutions, has acquired Life Care Solutions, a division of Resideo. “With this acquisition, Clear Arch Health is taking the next big step to solidify its role in the remote patient monitoring market,” said Rob Flippo, co-founder and CEO of MobileHelp. “While leveraging LCS’s deep experience, extensive customer base...

MINNEAPOLIS – Best Buy has signed an agreement to acquire Current Health, a technology platform that brings together remote patient monitoring, telehealth and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organizations.   “The future of consumer technology is directly connected to the future of healthcare,” said Deborah Di Sanzo, president of Best Buy Health. “We have the distinct expertise in helping customers make technology work for them directly in their...

NEW YORK – AMC Health will provide certain Medicare Advantage enrollees who have congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with Bluetooth monitoring devices to transmit real-time biometric data to its clinicians as part of a new partnership with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.  Launching this program helps to better ensure that pre-acute exacerbations of...