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Digital health deals: Yale New Haven Hospital teams up with Reflexion Health for virtual rehab platform and more

By Heather Mack 03:01 pm February 10, 2017

Yale New Haven Hospital has tapped Reflexion Health for its virtual physical therapy platform as part of a new program aimed at helping patients recover from joint replacement surgery. Patients at Yale’s Center for Musculoskeletal Care will use Reflexion’s Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant (VERA) platform, which offers patients a home-based rehabilitation experience. The platform will be...

West Virginia hospital system sees readmission reductions from patient education initiative

By Heather Mack 02:34 pm February 9, 2017

A telehealth initiative at Charleston Area Medical Center led to reduced readmission rates for several chronic conditions, the health system reported today. What led to the reductions wasn’t the advent of video consultations with specialists or sophisticated biometric sensor monitoring, but health information for patients and workflow integration for hospital staff via SmarTigr, TeleHealth...