Going low tech might reduce costly hospital admissions in chronic heart failure
Patient Access Weekly Advisor, August 26, 2009
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Any hospital dealing with significant numbers of congestive heart failure patients would want to reduce costly admissions with better management for people in their homes. And Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Northern Virginia, is no different.
That's why it promptly embraced an idea to monitor its CHF patients' daily weight and symptoms without having to see them in a healthcare setting. So it turned to a concept that uses surprisingly simple technology: a scale and a telephone, to learn the earliest signs of fluid buildup and treat those patients before their disease gets out of control.
The process, using Pharos Innovations' Tel-Assurance Remote Patient Monitoring Platform, takes only three minutes.
Read the full story by HealthLeaders Media's Cheryl Clark.
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