Virginia Hospital Expands RPM Program After Telehealth Pilot Success
Children's Hospital of Richmond is adding new functions to its remote patient monitoring program for post-surgery patients after seeing the telehealth platform reduce adverse clinical outcomes.
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By - Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University is expanding its remote patient monitoring program following the successful test of a telemedicine tablet that enabled care providers to keep track of their post-surgery patients at home.
A year-long study of the telehealth platform developed by Dictum Health and recently published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery found that the tablet-based telehealth program resulted in no additional clinical visits or rehospitalizations and even prevented two probable ED visits. In addition, the program helped hospital officials discharge two patients 12 to 24 hours sooner than they would have been discharged under the normal care routine.
In addition, 92 percent of those in the study reported feeling comfortable using the connected health platform to communicate with doctors and nurses at the hospital, a critical factor in the viability of an RPM service for post-surgery patients.
