McKnight’s Senior Living February 20, 2024
Aaron Dorman

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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