mHealth Intelligence August 13, 2020
Eric Wicklund

A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that an interstage home monitoring program, which uses mHealth and telehealth to monitor infants recovering at home from heart surgery, reduced the mortality rate by 40 percent.

A remote patient monitoring program for babies who’ve had heart surgery has helped reduce infant mortality by some 40 percent, according to the American Heart Association.

In a scientific statement published in the latest edition of the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers found that an interstage home monitoring (IHM) program, which gives parents mHealth tools and instructs them on how to monitor important health parameters including an infant’s oxygen saturation levels, caloric intake and weight gain, played a significant...

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