No place like home: telemonitoring can improve home care
Averwater, N.Wilson.; Burchfield, D.C.
Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 59(4): 46-8 50 52
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 15853034 Document Number: 591681
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.