No place like home: telemonitoring can improve home care.
Effective use of telemonitoring equipment can reduce costs of providing home health care and increase revenues enough to ensure the fiscal health of this industry segment. Using telemonitoring as a basis, a home health agency can develop a disease management program, making itself more attractive to managed care organizations. Telemonitoring offers home health agencies a means to partner with hospitals to help reduce length of stay and recurrent hospitalizations of patients with chronic illness.
Averwater
Nancy Wilson
NW
Baptist Trinity Home Care & Hospice, Memphis, Tenn., USA.
Burchfield
David C
DC
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