title: Meeting the challenges of case management with remote patient monitoring technology.
abstract: The article presents an overview of some of the current trends in health care and the challenges faced by nurse case managers who are providing disease management services. It discusses some of the emerging technologies available today for innovative case management. In particular, this article describes a program run by a healthcare system in Sacramento, California that uses an Internet-based technology to enhance their nurse case management model. The article demonstrates how the Health Hero platform enables interactive communication between nurse case managers and their patients, thereby meeting some of the challenges the nurse case managers are faced with in the modern disease-management world.
authors.affiliation: Health Hero Network, Inc., 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 111, Mountain View, California 94040, USA. jcherry@healthhero.com
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cherry
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Colliflower
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tsiperfal
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D002140:California; D019090:Case Management; D019468:Disease Management; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface