UC Davis Health Calls on the Geek Squad to Support Its New RPM Program

The Sacramento-based health system has signed a deal with the retail giant’s care-at-home business, Current Health, to supply RPM equipment, including digital blood pressure cuffs and scales, and a monitoring platform to selected patients. All data collected from that platform is then integrated into the health system’s EHR platform and accessed by the UC Davis Health Connected Care Center.

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Is Healthcare on the Right Path to Transformation?

The litany of pain points within healthcare is long, from workforce shortages to soaring costs to ineffective outcomes. To address those issues, healthcare executives are looking at new technology like AI and virtual care. Some are looking for small, incremental gains, while others say the entire care delivery system has to change.

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Has Remote Patient Monitoring Hit a Roadblock?

According to social media and news reports, the roadblock is coming from the American Medical Association’s 21-member CPT Editorial Panel, which hasn’t been able to agree on amendments to the CPT codes covering RPM services. The panel indefinitely suspended the proposed changes at its May meeting.

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MUSC Pivots on Virtual Nursing to Focus on the Specifics

Warr says it’s critical to identify specific KPIs in evaluating the success of a Virtual Nursing program, and to focus on small, measurable actions rather than larger concepts. For example, it’s great to say such a program will reduce time spent on admissions and discharge, but there are many factors that go into those processes that Virtual Nursing won’t affect.

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Geisinger’s Plan to Boost Quality and Patient Experience Through Virtual Nursing

Virtual nursing provides new opportunities for nurses to have more flexibility, and for hospitals to use their staff more efficiently. A single nurse can now observe more patients at once, and watch for signs of patient discomfort or distress. Tenured nurses can stay employed longer, without having to worry about working long shifts, and they can support new nurses virtually.

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