Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Aug 31, 2022
Date Accepted: Feb 28, 2023
The Next Frontier of Remote Patient Monitoring: Hospital at Home
ABSTRACT
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has shown promise in aiding safe and efficient remote care for chronic conditions, however its use remains largely unexplored within Hospital at Home (HaH) programs despite a significant opportunity to increase patient eligibility for and decrease the cost of HaH. This article describes how HaH could further adopt the three primary modalities of RPM (vital sign, telemetry and fall monitoring) to safely expand appropriate patient enrollment in HaH programs. We also detail how by using RPM, HaH may deliver care more efficiently and achieve cost-savings. For RPM to achieve its potential in enhancing HaH care delivery, further care delivery research which could inform optimization of patient – RPM modality matching and implementation considerations as well as enabling policy considerations should be considered.
Citation
Request queued. Please wait while the file is being generated. It may take some time.
Copyright
© The authors. All rights reserved. This is a privileged document currently under peer-review/community review (or an accepted/rejected manuscript). Authors have provided JMIR Publications with an exclusive license to publish this preprint on it's website for review and ahead-of-print citation purposes only. While the final peer-reviewed paper may be licensed under a cc-by license on publication, at this stage authors and publisher expressively prohibit redistribution of this draft paper other than for review purposes.