Remote Monitoring Boosts Quality & Cuts Costs

HealthImaging.com
January 6, 2010

Connected health--continuous, remote monitoring of chronic conditions, as well as online and mobile care--will improve quality, contain costs and provide a new level of convenience for health consumers, according to a report from the New York City-based consulting company Accenture...

The report cited the New England Healthcare Institute, which found net savings of more than $1,861 per patient using remote monitoring for heart failure patients in 2004... According to Accenture, three enabling technologies, such as health electronics and decision support technologies, combined with growing connectivity, are important to the future of chronic care...

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