People living with dementia have high rates of emergency department (ED) use for acute illnesses—and a recent study found that telemedicine can help.
The rather slow move towards value-based healthcare may be why Call9, which provided telehealth services to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), is suspending its operations.
It's your last chance to register for the Collaborative Care & Health IT Innovations Summit, to be held June 23-25, 2019, in Baltimore, Md.
Telehealth is much more than virtual health visits, said CAST Associate Director Scott Code while serving on a panel at World Health Care Congress 2019, held April 28-May 1 in Washington, DC.
The term also encompasses remote patient monitoring, educational disease-specific content, medication management, activity and daily living monitoring, and safety technology. But the question of what to do with all this data once it’s collected remains, Code told the panel.
National Women’s Health Week is a health observance coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women's Health (OWH). Kicking off each year on Mother’s Day, it empowers women to make their health a priority and encourages them to take the following steps to improve their physical and mental health and lower their risks of certain diseases:
- Visit a health care provider for a well-woman visit (checkup), preventive screenings, and vaccines.
As it relates to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans offering supplemental benefits, CMS made two key changes in the final Call Letter.
A recent groundbreaking study from LeadingAge and NORC found that older adults have some surprising attitudes and expectations around quality of life and aging—particularly if they become physically or cognitively impaired and need long-term services and supports (LTSS).
LeadingAge also asked CMS to provide more detail on the types of benefits a MA plan may offer under the new Special Supplemental Benefits for Chronically Ill policy and clarification on how these customized, person-centered benefits will be authorized. Additional comments were offered recommending ways for CMS to reduce provider burden by: 1) ensuring automation of crossover claims for dual eligibles enrolled in MA plans (currently, available in Medicare FFS and Special Needs Plans); and 2) eliminating duplicative reporting of basic provider information(e.g., name, address, NPI and license
The future of aging technologies was on full display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held the first week of January in Las Vegas.
Here’s an overview of our work for you in December 2018.
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