Telehealth Trends in the News!
Telehealth is on the rise and in the news! Check in with us frequently or subscribe to our blog to review current topics related to this growing trend in healthcare!
- The market for remote monitoring technology, which will be used primarily for home health and disease management, will total nearly $300 million by 2015, according to research from Frost & Sullivan.Another study in the same article estimates that the number of patients worldwide using telehealth will more than double between now and 2016.
- Telehealth reimbursement will grow, health leaders recently reported. According to a panel at the CES Digital Health Summit, discussing business models to support e-health, Federal Medicare program for seniors and disabled Americans currently does not reimburse for most telehealth, care coordination, and home monitoring services, but that could change soon.
- Trustees for the late Leona Helmsley are spending $100 million of her fortune to develop a telehealth network in seven Midwestern states.
- Advocates for home care technology such as telehealth services, recently pushed for federal legislation that would increase adoption (and reimbursement) among Medicare patients.
- A new study published in the Gerontologist, states that telehealth is associated with improvement in general health and reduced ED visits in COPD or HF patients.
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