Study: Telemonitoring seems promising

Home-based telemonitoring of patients with chronic diseases has a great deal of potential, according to a new study published this month in a high-profile health IT journal. To conduct the research, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Canadian researchers reviewed more than 65 studies published in the U.S. and Europe. The studies looked at home-based management of chronic pulmonary conditions, cardiac diseases, diabetes and hypertension using remote monitoring technology. While it wasn't clear how large the effect was, home telemonitoring did seem to cut ED visits, hospital admissions and average length of hospital stays, authors said. Telemonitoring seemed to have more impact on pulmonary and cardiac cases than diabetes and hypertension.

To get more information on the study:
- read this Healthcare IT News article

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