Recent market data on telehealth in general and the patient-centered medical home in particular identified home health monitoring as a key care coordination strategy for individuals with complex illnesses as well as a host of vulnerable populations.

2014 Healthcare Benchmarks: Remote Patient Monitoring delivers a comprehensive set of metrics from more than 100 healthcare organizations on current practices in and ramifications of remote monitoring for care management of chronic illness, the frail elderly and remote populations.

This 40-page report, based on responses to HIN's inaugural industry survey on remote patient monitoring conducted in 2014, examines technologies employed in remote monitoring as well as this strategy's early impact on healthcare access and utilization, especially as a tactic to reduce hospital readmissions.

Respondents also describe in their own words the challenges of launching a remote patient monitoring initiative, the most effective tool, process or workflow in their program, and results achieved from remote monitoring.

Download the executive summary of 2014 Healthcare Benchmarks: Remote Patient Monitoring.

This benchmark report is designed to meet business and planning needs of health plans, employers, managed care organizations, physician organizations, health systems, health IT companies and others by providing critical benchmarks in remote patient monitoring.

This market research is supported with dozens of graphs and tables and describes emerging trends in remote patient monitoring, providing a high-level look at overall responses and drilling down to sector-specific practices in the following areas:

• Actionable metrics on prevalence of remote monitoring programs;
  
• Strategies to identify candidates for remote monitoring;
  
• Health conditions and activities monitored remotely;
  
• Principal characteristics of individuals monitored remotely;
  
• Key components of remote monitoring programs;
  
• Tools and technologies employed in remote monitoring, such as motion detectors, call pendants, interactive voice response (IVR), mHealth apps, and others;
  
• Results and ROI from remote monitoring efforts, such as the impact of this practice on ER visits, hospital readmissions, and the patient and caregiver experience;
  
• Primary challenges of remote monitoring and examples of successful processes and workflows from existing programs;
  
• The complete 2014 Remote Patient Monitoring survey tool;

Download the executive summary of 2014 Healthcare Benchmarks: Remote Patient Monitoring.

This report is part of the HIN Healthcare Benchmarking series, which provides continuous qualitative data on industry trends to empower healthcare companies to assess strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to improve by comparing organizational performance to reported metrics.

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