Virtua Health Launches AI-Enabled Virtual Nursing Program
The New Jersey-based health system is collaborating with care.ai to integrate its virtual care technology throughout Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden following a pilot program launched late last year in one med-surg unit. Virtua executives say the platform will eventually be scaled out to all hospitals in the health system.
5 Common Mistakes in Documenting a Telemedicine Visit
The report, prepared by the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), analyzed $10.3 billion in E/M services billed to Medicare between March and November of 2020, of which $1.4 billion, or about 14%, were conducted by telemedicine.
Key Strategies for Sustaining an RPM Program
HealthSnap over the past two years to build out RPM and chronic care management (CCM) programs that now collectively serve more than 25,000 patients through 94 primary care clinics and involving more than 400 physicians.
Congress Eyes Expansion of Hospital at Home Care Model
The At Home Observation and Medical Evaluation (HOME) Services Act, if passed, would give the strategy some life beyond the planned December 31, 2024 expiration date for the Medicare waiver that supports the program.
HHS Expands Telemedicine Use in Opioid Abuse Treatment Programs
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule Feb. 2 in the Federal Register that, among other things, allow providers to evaluate new patients for a methadone-based treatment via audio-visual telemedicine.
New Jersey Makes Hospital at Home a State Program
The Hospital at Home Act, which was passed by the state Legislature and signed by Governor Phil Murphy in September 2023 and enacted into law on January 23, establishes a state Hospital at Home permitting process through the New Jersey Department of Health that is consistent with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Acute Hospital Care at Home Program.
Stroke Management with Teleneurology
The number of neurologists already doesn’t cover the demand for their services, and they are also distributed unevenly, creating so-called “neurological deserts” where patients don’t have access to quality neurological care.
Patient Experience is Crucial to the Success of Hospital at Home
The crucial piece of the puzzle that could make this program sustainable is data that proves patients are healing better and faster at home than in the hospital.
Redesigning Care Management for Medically Complex Children
Children with medical complexity make up less than 1% of children in the United States, but they represent 56% of hospitalized pediatric patients and 82% of hospital days in children’s hospitals. Children with medical complexity represent just 5% to 6% of children covered under Medicaid, but they account for approximately one third of Medicaid expenditures on pediatric patients.
AI Technology Can Help Us Solve the Nursing Crisis
WellSpan Health in Pennsylvania was experiencing many of the challenges facing other hospitals across the nation, including rising staffing costs, resignations of clinical staff, turnover, and narrowing margins. To overcome these barriers, WellSpan piloted a smart hospital platform powered by artificial intelligence.