Friday, September 4, 2015

Serious ROI in remote patient monitoring

How one health system saves $90,000 per patient (Healthcare IT News)
NAH [Northern Arizona Healthcare] saw hospitalizations drop from 3.26 mean per patient to 1.82 and days hospitalized drop from 13.98 mean per patient to 5.13 and, based on the health system's data about the first 50 patients six months prior to enrollment and six months after enrollment, that added up to savings of approximately $92,000 per patient.
The "biometrics" discussed in the article aren't biometrics for identification, but ID biometrics will certainly be a part of the picture as these kinds of technologies are adopted more widely.