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Dealing with natural disasters in healthcare can be very difficult because you are concerned with both your patient’s safety and your own safety.  We often get asked by our customers if we have suggestions for how to plan for natural disasters like hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, or even just power outages. I’d like to outline a […]

By now you’ve probably heard that the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) has issued its proposed 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program. While it contains a number of changes that affect physician documentation of care, drug pricing, and transparency, there are also three items that should be of particular interest […]

A great article written by Vivify Health CEO, Eric Rock, published today on Becker’s Health IT & CIO Report… https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/when-you-build-it-and-they-don-t-come-why-remote-patient-monitoring-completes-the-patient-engagement-circuit.html “When patient portals were first mandated under Meaningful Use (MU), the idea was to facilitate two-way communication between providers and patients. They got it half right. The portals were built, providers began placing patient information […]

“The expansion of IoT in the home [really excites me],” said Bill Paschall, VP of development at Vivify Health. He’s interested in seeing how healthcare companies create apps that integrate into the voice-controlled devices already in consumers’ homes.”… Watch the FULL VIDEO on Samsung’s Insights blog.

Check out this very informative white paper from Nonin (one of our vendors) on the successes seen in COPD 30-day readmission rates. http://www.nonin.com/documents/WhitePaper_COPDReadmissionReductionProgram.pdf

Some great articles summarizing the current movement on expanding reimbursement for Remote Patient Care… https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/mhealth-telehealth-groups-lobby-cms-for-better-rpm-reimbursement https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ama-industry-leaders-call-on-cms-to-expand-remote-patient-monitoring-reimb/525452/

A great short synopsis on the shift to Value-based Healthcare and the “Consumerification” of patients.  Click the link below to see a quick understanding of the evolution of the pay market in healthcare. Patients to Customers

Its clinical use of remote monitoring is focused on congestive heart failure, advanced illness care, tobacco treatment services and inflammatory bowel diseases. Before remote patient monitoring, UPMC did not have easy access to patients at home and was relying on visiting nurses to get data, which didn’t happen every day. Moreover, home-based patients could not […]

View a great ATA panel discussion including ATA board members, who happen to be Vivify Health customers, as they spotlight Remote Patient Monitoring and how it has made a direct and valuable impact on their clinical operations and patient outcomes. This exciting panel discussion on the now and future of Remote Patient Monitoring consisted of current […]

The growth of Vivify Health in the past few years has been nothing short of astounding. Our revenues have more than doubled every year since 2014. We recently surpassed 5 million monitored days across our customer base, which now includes over 700 hospitals and 200 non-hospital sites of care, such as home health agencies and […]