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Telehealth Program Monitors Patients at Home

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VNA Health Group's Telehealth Program allows nurses to monitor their patients from the comfort of their own home. Watch as Telehealth manager Kyle Sanicki explains more about this service.

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heart failure (disease or medical condition)

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This video explains Telehealth, a program that leverages easy-to-use technology installed in a patient's home to reduce emergency room visits and rehospitalizations by up to 50 percent. By communicating patients' biometric data, Telehealth helps clinicans monitor patients who are at risk for hospitalizations.

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It's the use of Telehealth technologies, such as audio/video/phone, where nurses can interact and monitor patients remotely allowing for a more efficient delivery of care.

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Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care from a distance.

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Nurse informaticists use both clinical expertise and technical knowledge to decide determine the technology that best suits the organization and its' patients, while also providing technical support to it's users.

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One of the great challenges in health care today is providing affordable, accessible, high quality healthcare in the home to individuals with complex, dual diagnoses of medical illness and co-existing mental-health conditions.  Telehealth for home care can be an affordable alternative to meet the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations with complex care needs requiring frequent healthcare services.

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>Inexpensive
>Increased patient satisfaction
>Allows providers to expand practice without relocation
>Global capabilities

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>Licensing and Credentialing: nurses and nurse practitioners may not be licensed in every state. Obtaining licensure for every state could be uneconomical.
>Reimbursement: Telehealth reimbursement policies differ across state Medicaid plans and private payers.
>Fraud and Abuse: Telemedicine systems increase the risk for kickback and Stark Law violations.
>HIPPA violations: electronic sharing of patient information  increases the risk for data breach.

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Telehealth creates a disconnect from the patient and provider relationship. I believe that patients who utilize telehealth will become dependent on the east access to care which will result in a decline in face to face visits. There is also the inability to physically assess a patient through telehealth which could result in misdiagnoses by providers. Telehealth is not conducive to the continuity of health care for the patient, which could result in vital health information being lost or nor shared with the next provider.