A new partnership between technology company Circadia Health and 77 skilled nursing facilities operated by Ciena Healthcare aims to significantly improve preventive care and reduce preventable rehospitalizations.
Congress advisers back permanent telehealth expansions, look to nix in-person rule for behavioral telehealth...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2024
Maintaining Medicare access to telehealth services must remain a priority, members of a congressional advisory panel said Thursday.
Message-based telehealth an increasingly important part of seniors’ healthcare, study finds
By
Aaron Dorman
Apr 11, 2024
Messages between patients and clinicians should be covered by Medicare as part of telehealth services for seniors, a new study suggests.
New DOJ rules for online healthcare content make sure seniors aren’t taken offline
By
Aaron Dorman
Apr 11, 2024
The DOJ took steps earlier this week to help make sure seniors have appropriate access to online healthcare and coverage decisions.
AI tools help predict complications following lower-extremity fracture
Apr 10, 2024
XGBoost was identified as the optimal model, achieving average test AUC of 0.90 before the synthetic minority oversampling technique.
AI provides mostly accurate answers to primary care questions
Apr 09, 2024
The authors say the findings still emphasize the importance of viewing AI tools as complementary resources when seeking medical information.
Telehealth inequities may arise for older adults with vision problems, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Apr 09, 2024
Seniors with vision impairment were less likely to have access to telehealth compared to those with better eyesight, according to a new study.
Caregivers, seniors with Alzheimer’s to benefit from ‘Rippl’ effect, access to 24/7 helpline
By
Aaron Dorman
Apr 09, 2024
A new dementia care platform will get telehealth to more seniors, and their caregivers, including access to a 24/7 helpline.
ChatGPT capable of clinical reasoning — maybe better than clinicians
Apr 04, 2024
The study builds on early AI studies showing that chatbots could make diagnoses.
Ongoing lawsuits indicate there’s little advantage to seniors for letting AI determine their MA coverage
By
Aaron Dorman
Apr 04, 2024
A new report calls out the role of AI in validating cost-cutting measures that leave seniors in need without coverage.