With Telehealth Success in Hand, a Hospital Reaches Out to Payers
Henry Ford Health has seen success with a remote patient monitoring platform that reduces hospital readmissions. Now the health system wants to partner with payers to expand the service.
- Armed with the results of a telehealth program that greatly reduced hospital readmissions, a Detroit health system is now looking for payer partnerships to expand their reach.
Executives at the Henry Ford Health System say their e-Home Care service, which provides mHealth and telemedicine technology for the Henry Ford at Home program, reduced rehospitalizations by some 45 percent during the first half of 2019, as compared to the same time period in 2018, with a monthly readmission rate dropping to as low as 7 percent.
That translates to an improvement in clinical outcomes and health and wellness for the more than 130 patients enrolled in the remote patient monitoring program, as well as a significant reduction in healthcare costs. And it offers another example of why health systems are turning to RPM platforms to manage chronic care and post-discharge patient populations at home.
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