A meta-analysis of telehealth studies found that, compared to traditional hospital/clinic visits, those patients with heart failure receiving telehealth had a 42 percent reduction in re-hospitalizations. This study concluded that Remote Patient Monitoring has the potential to prevent between 460,000 and 627,000 heart failure related hospital readmissions each year.

Another study that focused on the impact of telehealth on hospital readmissions in general, found there was a 60 percent reduction in readmissions when Remote Patient Monitoring was used, compared with traditional hospital/clinic visits. When compared with other disease management programs that did not use Remote Patient Monitoring, a 50 percent reduction in readmissions was observed.

Examples:

• Stabilizing, following, and managing individuals with chronic conditions after an acute episode (e.g., emergency room, hospital, or physician visit)
• Monitoring at home shortens hospital stays and reduces cost.
• Reinforcing hospital discharge plan instructions

This continuous regular tracking of vitals and daily disease condition monitoring via the eHealthVitals® solution provides clinicians with an opportunity to:

• Perform early intervention
• Manage and adjust medications
• Attend to exacerbations
• Prevent disease from progressing
• Reduce unnecessary emergency department visits
• Reduce hospitalizations and associated costs
• Service rural and remote populations
• Decrease patient's clinic visits

The eHealthVitals® solution provides a more frequent engagement of health care providers and patients. This provides more familiarity of patient’s condition compared to the less frequent interactions occurring with occasional clinic and hospital visits.

The eHealthVitals® solution can be deployed anywhere an internet connection is available.

• Patients can be conected to the caregiver and monitored even when traveling.
• Medical professionals can access the patient's information on any computer without installing complicated software.
• Applicable to manage remote emergency patients, in hazardous fire and flood conditions.
• Suitable for rural healthcare and where clinical care are scarce.

eHealthVitals® is completely modular, meaning that it can be adapted to monitor a wide variety of comorbidities.

For example, eHealthVitals® is ideal for performing remote monitoring and care for diabetics by having the ability to give feedback of blood glucose levels. This informs the patient and caregiver how food, water, activity, and medications affect the patient's blood glucose, allowing the optimization of insulin dosing schedule.