by Jordana Choucair | Jan 11, 2022 | Health IT
Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking examples of digital health technologies that could be used to strengthen “community health, individual wellness, and health equity.” In addition to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | Health IT
International Business Machines Corp. is once again trying to sell IBM Watson Health, which includes a health care data and analytics company and population health and medical imaging businesses. IBM, which failed to attract a buyer for Watson Health last year, aims...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 6, 2021 | Health IT
CVS Health and Microsoft announced they are forming a strategic alliance to co-develop products around the areas of personalized care and digital health. CVS said it plans to use Microsoft’s computing capabilities to deliver more customized health...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 6, 2021 | Health IT
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors approved $23.5 million in research awards to support three mHealth and telehealth research studies. The first study aims to understand if mHealth approaches see more success than traditional...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 6, 2021 | Health IT
A new report from the HHS found that there were nearly 52.7 million fee-for-service telehealth visits by Medicare beneficiaries last year, up from only 840,000 in 2019. Visits to behavioral health specialists showed the largest increase – jumping from under 10 percent...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2021 | Health IT
A survey conducted by Rand Corporation found that the 53 percent of U.S. patients prefer a traditional in-office visit over a video visit for nonemergent care. Sixty-seven percent of participants preferred at least some video visits in the future. Participants...
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