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Providers and other experts recently have touted the ability of advanced remote monitoring tools to help older adults reduce their trips to the hospital, sometimes on a return visit.
Some of the most concrete evidence that RPM tools do, in fact, accomplish this outcome has come from studies in Europe.
The latest promising research shows that a smartphone app that logs older adults’ vital signs was able to reduce emergency department visits by 25%.
Developed by digital company Health Call, the app was able to reduce the number of any on-site emergency event, such as falling, by 11%. Overall, the research looked at more than 8,000 long-term care residents in more than 100 different facilities between 2018 and 2021, the...
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