Connected health tech helps patients manage care

Evidence is growing that giving patients the ability to connect remotely with providers--and do some of their own health monitoring--is useful and often very effective. The most recent study to suggest this came out last week, from Partners Health Care's Center for Connected Health. A group of 11 studies conducted at Partners-affiliated hospitals, including Mass General and Brigham and Women's, found that patients can significantly improve their health if given telemonitoring technology. For example, one study of non-homebound heart failure patients found that when the patients were given home telemonitoring equipment, and transmitted daily vital signs and symptoms to a telemonitoring nurse, 100 percent of patients said that this technology had helped them stay out of the hospital. In another example, remote blood sugar monitoring technology was found to be helpful to patients who were newly diagnosed or trying to regain control of diabetes.

To learn more about the study:
- read this Healthcare IT News article

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