Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D (R-LA) https://www.cassidy.senate.gov and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) https://www.baldwin.senate.gov have introduced the Retaining Access and Restoring Exclusivity (RARE) Act which would help preserve access to treatments for rare diseases especially for children. (more…)
Hospitalists Providing Virtual Care
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Lower Manhattan Hospital faced multiple challenges during the first COVID-19 surge. (more…)
Virtual Health Benefits Roadmap
Teladoc Health https://www.teladochealth.com has announced the first-of-its-kind Virtual Care Transformation Model to help employers and health plans assess and advance their healthcare programs by integrating virtual care to improve access, lower costs, and to provide better health outcomes. (more…)
VA Developing VET-HOME
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough speaking before House of Representatives on the FY 2023 Budget Request for the VA, mentioned that the agency is developing the Veterans Exposure Team-Health Outcomes of Military Exposures or referred to as VET-HOME. (more…)
FCC Authorizes $200M for Broadband
The FCC https://www.fcc.gov is authorizing $199,336,695 through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to fund new broadband deployments in 26 states and the Northern Marianna Islands which will bring service to over 230,000 locations. (more…)
AI Platform Launched at ATA2022
Connect America Home™ (CA Home), https://www.connectamerica.com is the next generation AI-enabled digital health and safety platform. The platform provides secure, non-intrusive, continuous monitoring with emergency and non-emergency support to help aging and vulnerable populations.
This solution integrated into a single platform provides Personal Emergency Response Services (PERS) and RPM plus support services that include AI-enabled virtual health assistance and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) support.
CA Home is not only helping to improve access to care and quality of life but is also helping payers and providers transition care to lower cost at home settings by providing detailed data and insights on critical changes in an individual’s health, activity, and mobility to inform smarter decision-making.
Through Connect America’s 24/7 concierge call center and services hub, and in conjunction with their care partners, CA Home also helps connect individuals to non-emergency services that can address food insecurity, transportation, and social isolation.
The solution features voice integration with an in-home virtual health assistant and offers an array of devices from watches, pendants to blood pressure cuffs, and pulse oximeters to meet the needs of the population, regardless of age, tech ability or medical acuity.
New Hypertension $50M Study
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) https://www.pcori.org an independent non-profit non-governmental organization, has been accepting proposals for a new study to compare health system strategies to improve hypertension outcomes for populations experiencing disparities. (more…)