Telehealth
is only in its early stages – do we have evidence yet that it works?
PHI’s Center for Innovation and
Technology in Public Health reviews three “early adopters” of telehealth
technologies and answers a resounding yes. One site studied, The Connected
Cardiac Care Program at Partners HealthCare in Boston, has seen hospital
readmission rates for heart failure drop by 50 percent and generated total cost
savings of more than $10 million since 2006.
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the case studies >
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