title: No place like home: telemonitoring can improve home care.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Baptist Trinity Home Care & Hospice, Memphis, Tenn., USA.
authors.forename: Nancy Wilson
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Averwater
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Burchfield
mesh_terms: D002202:Capital Financing; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States