Patient Monitoring and the Nanny State

  • Published 18 Aug 2009

We’ve all heard the reasons why patient monitoring is poised to become a major industry of its own. The New England Healthcare Institute recently updated one of its earlier reports on remote physiological monitoring and determined that monitoring technology runs roughly $2,052 per year per patient, but brings about a 6% reduction in hospital readmissions for patients that have both standard care and remote monitoring and a 50% cut in readmissions for patients that participate in a disease management program along with monitoring.

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