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Healthcare providers and health systems are facing an unprecedented challenge: Provide individualized care to patients while managing ever-increasing demands on resources.
Remote patient monitoring is one way to support care provided to patient populations. Remote patient monitoring programs use technology and patient support services to monitor patients’ health status over time outside of conventional clinical settings. Medtronic Care Management Services provides remote monitoring programs designed to help healthcare providers and health systems better manage the health of focused populations, providing five key benefits.
5 BENEFITS OF REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING
Clinical studies have shown the following benefits are linked to remote monitoring programs:
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Lindsay Streeter
Former clinical leader of Medtronic Care Management Services
About the Author
Lindsay Streeter is the former clinical leader of Medtronic Care Management Services, serving as the clinical voice of the business and was responsible for designing solutions to meet clinical strategic initiatives and serve patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals across the care continuum.
Lindsay started at Medtronic Care Management Services in 2011 and held a variety of positions including clinical operations management, program management and strategic clinical program design. Prior to Medtronic Care Management Services, Lindsay was a charge nurse for a large in-center hemodialysis provider and a Heart Failure Nurse Clinician for an integrated network in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lindsay is a Certified Heart Failure Nurse (CHRN-K) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Chamberlain College of Nursing.
Darkins A, Kendall S, Edmonson E, Young M, Stressel P. Reduced Cost and Mortality Using Home Telehealth to Promote Self-Management of Complex Chronic Conditions: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study of 4,999 Veteran Patients. Telemed J E Health. 2015(21):70–76.
Medtronic data on file.
Siahpush, Mo, Tyson, Geri. “Remote Interventions Improving Specialty Complex Care (RIISCC): Remote Patient Monitoring for Diabetes Patients.” University of Nebraska Medical Center PowerPoint presentation. 2016.
Dickinson, Michael G., and Kevin L. Vos. “Home Telehealth Done in an Integrated Disease Management Program Results in Substantial Cost Savings and Reduction in Healthcare Utilization.” Journal of Cardiac Failure, vol. 21, no. 8, Aug. 2015, p. S78.
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Darkins A, Kendall S, Edmonson E, Young M, Stressel P. Reduced Cost and Mortality Using Home Telehealth to Promote Self-Management of Complex Chronic Conditions: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study of 4,999 Veteran Patients. Telemed J E Health. 2015(21):70–76.
“Chronic Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries, Chart Book 2012.” Baltimore, MD: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; 2012. Accessed November 18, 2014. Data is based on third-party data, which is not necessarily identical to the Medtronic Care Management Services data.
Medtronic data on file.