A growing area for remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been in the treatment and management of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). With the aim to improve patient health outcomes and reduce overall hospital readmissions, the Comprehensive COPD Clinic at UC Davis Health has recently launched a remote patient monitoring program for high-risk patients with COPD.

As your organization considers how to improve outcomes and create a healthier patient population for 2023 you should consider the role that digital health solutions play in supporting your initiatives.

In a recent update HCA Healthcare Inc. has announced the official enterprise-wide roll out of their Enhanced Surgical Recovery (ESR) digital-health program. This implementation comes off the back of their 20 years of clinical research, a multitude of peer reviewed publications and an intensive review of internal data to make a multidisciplinary approach to pre and post operative care.

As we continue to solve the age-old problems in healthcare with new and exciting technologies, it’s important to be pragmatic about your programs.

Not all solutions are made equal, and many made with the best intentions end up falling short in implementation. Thus, leaving you wondering if it was the virtual care program, patient, or the provider? How is it that some virtual care and remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs fail to achieve their promised benefits while others succeed?

mHealth solutions that deliver contextual content and interventions with the ability to collect data, enable communication, and measure outcomes to enable care refinement are within reach. Organizations can now leverage an integrated solution that combines these pieces, provides true whole-person care, and works seamlessly with every system the consumer may encounter. In this blog, we discuss four strategies to consider when implementing mHealth solutions.

In 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) renewed their support of remote patient monitoring (RPM) with the continuation of the five main current procedural terminology (CPT) codes for reimbursement of services. In this blog, we’ll cover what you need to know about RPM, requirements for billing, and a summary of the RPM CPT codes.

Like any new clinical technology, setting up an RPM program can often be intimidating. For those interested in buying vs. building their RPM platform, vendors, like Mozzaz, who have made RPM their business can be a great resource. At Mozzaz we aim to make the process as easy as possible, and we’ve compiled what you need to consider for your RPM program into six steps. If you’re interested in how to launch and run a successful RPM program, here’s what you need to consider.

With the advent of mHealth devices and telehealth platforms, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has gained traction as a legitimate care pathway. Using connected health tools that can track patients at home as they go about their daily routines, care providers can now monitor patients’ vital signs, adjust care plans on the fly, intervene when necessary, and even gather non-clinical data to better understand all the factors influencing the health and wellness of their patients.

Healthcare providers have long wondered how they could improve care for patients outside the hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office. But for a long time, they didn’t have the technology to monitor patients, gather data or relay information back to the provider. That changed with the advent of consumer facing health devices like smart scales, blood pressure cuffs, blood-glucose monitors, and wearables like fitness bands and smartwatches.

In 2020 we saw pandemic-driven innovation, and this innovation excitement continued and expanded its reach in 2021. As an industry, we’re rethinking the digitalization of healthcare, and investment in digital channels is becoming a key part of healthcare strategy. As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to highlight some of our most helpful resources and newsworthy moments.

There are three kinds of companies that exist in the world today. Those that have been breached, those that don’t know they’ve been breached and those that will be breached. While this may seem to be a rather pessimistic view of the business landscape, time and time again we’ve seen that no matter how secure companies appear to be on the surface, there is no way to be 100% secure from all internal and external threats. This is why compliance polices & procedures are so important for organizations of any size to implement.

As telehealth services rise in popularity, we’re seeing how augmenting in-home, long-term care with technology solutions can help to increase patient independence and improve quality of life even further. . Taking a look at just one solution that can be implemented in this environment, remote patient monitoring for long-term care is making a tremendous impact on caregivers and those they serve. Thanks to advancements in connected technology, doctors and nurses providing long-term, in-home care can deliver additional services that conveniently fit into their patients’ daily routines. Read on to learn more about how in-home care and remote patient monitoring work together to better outcomes for long-term care patients.

Recently, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposal for it’s 2022 Physician Fee Schedule. Over the last several years, more non-traditional modalities of healthcare have found their way into the CMS reimbursement landscape. This is promising as it suggests that CMS is aligning themselves with consumer demand and technology developments by incentivizing physicians to deliver care in a way that caters to the preferences of their patients.

Telehealth — the distribution of health-related services and information digitally — has grown in popularity over the course of the pandemic. Although it has been in the works for quite some time, the need to limit the transmission of communicable diseases acted as a catalyst for the adoption of telehealth services across the healthcare industry. With the reputation and usefulness of these services becoming more widespread, it begs the question: What is the future of telehealth?

Want to expand your efforts on improving patient outcomes? Improving patient engagement is a valuable part of an overall strategy for better outcomes, and is gaining traction across providers and care team members.. That said, what is patient engagement in healthcare, exactly? Patient engagement is about more than just sharing information. It’s about improving healthcare through interaction on both sides. We offer a specialized, digital platform designed to do just that.

Prior to the introduction of digital healthcare services, physicians had to tailor their treatments based solely on the information they received during in-person appointments. Medical records and details collected during face-to-face visits do provide valuable insights that help inform effective treatment plans, but this still only represents a relatively small cross-section of a person’s overall health and well-being. Remote patient monitoring technology is revolutionizing the way healthcare providers interact with the people they treat, as well as how those receiving care participate in their treatments.

Nearly 1.8 million more people were diagnosed with some type of cancer in 2020. In fact, nearly 40% of all adult Americans will receive a cancer diagnosis at some point in their lifetimes. Treating these patients while allowing them to live their lives as normally as possible can create challenges for oncologists. Fortunately, new technologies are making it possible for doctors and patients to incorporate care into their daily routines with greater success.

Health equity is always a hot topic of conversation across the healthcare industry, and for good reason. Giving everyone an equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible is key part of ensuring high quality care for all individuals. Studies have shown that, in comparison to their counterparts living in metropolitan areas, individuals living in rural areas receive a lower quality of care in areas including effective treatment, healthy living, care coordination and access.

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a pervasive and serious health issue in the United States. Managing circulatory health is important as an excessive amount of pressure in one’s arteries can cause an undue amount of strain on the heart, leading to a significantly higher risk of heart disease and stroke. Remote blood pressure monitoring can be of great benefit to physicians managing patients with high blood pressure. The constant stream of data gives valuable, more frequent insights that can drive more effective treatment decisions.

The healthcare industry, understandably, is always interested in new developments that can be used to improve patient quality of life. Recent innovations in technology have found their way into doctor’s toolkits across the industry. One of the latest examples of this phenomenon is the rise of wearable remote patient monitoring devices.