FCC funds allocated to support telehealth and connected care services (Miami, Florida) – Community Health of South Florida, Inc (CHI), a nonprofit health care organization providing affordable quality primary and behavioral health care services to South Florida residents, has selected WITHmyDOC, a South Florida-based digital health company, to enroll its most vulnerable patients in a sophisticated remote physiological monitoring (RPM) and virtual health program. CHI is one of 447 health care providers in the U.S. to benefit from the second round of funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and ..read more

(Fort Lauderdale/Davie, Florida) – The Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation (Levan Center), a new industry magnet for talent and innovation in technology, announced today its newest member, WITHmyDOC, a healthcare technology company based in Fort Lauderdale. WITHmyDOC offers patients living with chronic diseases a cutting-edge, remote monitoring technology that captures real-time data about their symptoms and disease progression. Through this collaboration, advanced technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, will be used to create patient monitoring devices fo ..read more

The Future of Health Care Delivery Will Benefit Patients and Providers By Jorge Rodriguez, VP Sales and Marketing, WithMyDoc COVID forced Telehealth to the forefront out of necessity. Now, its proven success, together with complementary technologies, such as remote patient monitoring (RPM) and federal funding, have enabled it to become a widely accepted standard of care. Most important, these technologies are providing much-needed access and more timely monitoring of chronically ill, vulnerable, and underserved populations. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the FCC COVID-19 Telehealth program ..read more

RPM Can Be a Time Saving, Cost Saving Resource A January 2022 piece by NBC News stated that 54% of all nurses and doctors reported being burned out even before the pandemic. The news story portrayed a dire situation. “Nearly 1 in 5 healthcare workers have quit since the beginning of the pandemic,” reported NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson. Earlier in late 2021, U.S. News & World Report held a webinar with top healthcare leaders, who detailed a “serious threat that burnout presents to the resiliency of hospitals and health systems. Across the nation, front-line workers have been challenged by e ..read more

South Florida Hospital News – January 2022 By Barbara R. Fallon Q. Is there a doctor in the house? A. Quite possibly, especially if physicians and community health care centers take telehealth to the next level through WITHmyDOC. WITHmyDOC is a digital health company which virtually connects patients to their care teams, providing real-time data to control symptom and disease progression. Founded in 2018, WITHmyDOC uses a web-based intelligence platform for remote patient monitoring (RPM) which is transforming healthcare delivery. Through the platform, partnering health systems, phys ..read more

Better HEDIS scores affect health centers’ bottom line, since better measures mean higher reimbursement. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) can be the answer for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in providing more consistent patient monitoring and having the ability to make treatment adjustments, bringing Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measurements back within the guidelines. FQHC patients face obstacles to healthcare including poverty, lack of health coverage, immigration status, and language and cultural barriers. Consequently, FQHCs strive to provide afforda ..read more

With the super-contagious Delta variant causing COVID-19 surges right now, mask mandates are being issued again, hospital beds are filling up, and vaccination requirements are starting to be enforced in some public places and even in some businesses. After months of steady decline, COVID-19 case numbers are headed back in the wrong direction. The Delta variant is currently fueling a nationwide surge, with all 50 states and Washington, D.C., reporting a rise in cases and 38 states seeing an increase of 50 percent or more over the past week, as of August 16. An August 17 news article reports tha ..read more

Use of remote patient monitoring (RPM) grew immensely during the COVID-19 pandemic as providers utilized it to monitor less severe patients at home in order to free up hospital beds for more severe patients. Now we have proof, a case study, that use of RPM to treat COVID-19 can help patients avoid hospitalization and recover quickly. Here’s a great case study from Kaiser Permanente Southern California researchers. From April 2020 through February 2021, Kaiser Permanente used RPM to monitor 13,000 COVID-19 patients from their home. Only 10% needed to be admitted to the hospital. With RPM, provi ..read more

July 2, 2021 – There’s been a lot of buzz lately about telehealth and with it, remote patient monitoring (RPM), so HomeCare talked with Jorge Rodriguez of WITHmyDOC to find out more about the benefits of RPM. Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, WITHmyDOC is a digital health company that uses a web-based intelligence platform to provide the real-time data needed to control symptom and disease progression. Rodriguez shares how RPM can help home health agencies provide better care. HOMECARE: How can home health agencies use RPM to monitor patients between visits and better under ..read more