50% reduction in hospital costs.
In 1996, HealthPartners of Minneapolis,
an HMO and payor, acquired an American TeleCare system for use in
the management of “high utilizers of care”--primarily
patients with chronic illnesses. HealthPartners reported a fifty
percent reduction in hospital costs and a thirty percent reduction
in overall costs related to these patients. Furthermore, patient
satisfaction and quality of care was maintained throughout the study
period. Detailed results were published in The Remington Report,
November/December 1996.
200-day reduction in hospitalization.
Kaiser Permanente of Sacramento, Calif.,
undertook another landmark study from May 1996 through November1997.
The study comprised intervention and control groups of one hundred
patients each with chronic conditions. The control group continued
to receive home-care visits according to their existing plan of
care, while the intervention group was monitored with American TeleCare’s
home telehealth system as a supplement to home-care visits. The
data revealed that home telehealth provided instant access to care,
created considerable efficiency in the delivery of home care and
reduced hospitalization by two hundred days in the intervention
group.
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