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Best practices for remote monitoring of blood glucose patients
Proper training and technique for patients is the best way to ensure accurate readings with your at-home blood glucose monitor.
Top 5 Remote Patient Monitoring Devices
These Remote Patient Monitoring devices track and monitor a variety of chronic conditions to help Medicare patients receive personalized care from the comfort of their home.
How can remote patient monitoring impact hypertension?
Remote patient monitoring devices can track hypertension more accurately and closely than most doctors' offices are able to in a traditional office visit setting.
CPT Code 99454 - Remote Patient Monitoring Guide
CPT Code 99454 is the billing code for supplying and monitoring patients with remote patient monitoring devices.
CPT Code 99453 - Remote Patient Monitoring Guide
CPT Code 99453 is the billing code for setting up patients with Remote Patient Monitoring devices. It reimburses providers for the time it takes to set-up devices and educate patients on how to use their new at home monitors.
Is Remote Patient Monitoring Considered Telehealth?
Telehealth can be defined in a number of ways, but is most often thought of as a means of connecting health professionals to patients by way of virtual visits, phone calls, and patient portals.
Best Practices for taking at home blood pressure readings
Proper training and technique for patients is the best way to ensure accurate readings with your at-home blood pressure monitor.
Witnessing and Voyeurism: Viewing Spectacular Performance in Paris is Burning
In the opening interview of the documentary film Paris is Burning (1990), a camera sits between the Ivy-League educated, white director Jennie Livingston and legendary drag queen and ball circuit house mother, Pepper Labeija. “I remember my dad said, ‘You have three strikes against you in this world; every black man has two, that they’re black and they’re male,” Labeija recalls in his opening interview, “but you’re black and you’re male and you’re gay ... If you’re going to do this then you’re going to have to be stronger than you ever imagined.’”
How accurate are home blood pressure monitors for remote patient monitoring?
Home blood pressure monitors provide patients with an accurate alternative to in-person doctor visits. Patients with at-home monitors have the ability to check their blood pressure twice daily, the recommended amount, or more often, without making multiple trips to the doctors office.
What is Remote Patient Monitoring?
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) bridges the gap of effective communication, trust, and support between medical providers and Medicare patients.
The Aesthetics of Climate Change
Climate change is an evolving, growing, and compounding force that is often too difficult to fully comprehend in its entirety. Increased natural disasters, rising temperatures, and rapidly melting ice caps often occur in geographical and temporal locations that prevent humanity from fully grasping the world-altering changes that are unfolding around the world. This is where Danish and Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson steps in with his installation art piece Ice Watch.
What Art Can Do for the Environment
We belong to a generation of children who were taught first hand to do our part to singularly alter the inevitable path of climate change.
Ten Things No One Tells You About Studying Abroad
Studying abroad is difficult in ways you cannot prepare for and is incredible in ways you can’t imagine.
The Accordance of Will in Women and Marriage in Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy, author of Anna Karenina, offers a complex web of women who become entangled in the intricacies of individual will and marriage. Tolstoy asserts that marriage is a chief institution that is upheld by the trust and will of its participants; it cannot be fulfilled if primary will is absent.
Brian Wilson and the Sounds of God
The product of inspired spontaneity, “God Only Knows” — lauded by Paul McCartney as ‘the greatest song ever’ —sparked a restless and beautiful new version of pop music at a time when the word “God” was still barred from the industry.