mHealth Intelligence August 30, 2019
– Kaiser Permanente is announcing the success of a cardiac rehabilitation telehealth program that saw increased patient engagement and reduced rehospitalizations among more than 2,300 Californians who took part in the project.
The connected health program was such a success, officials say, that it will be expanded beyond Southern California.
“This program took a fresh, digital-first approach to cardiac rehabilitation and put control in patients’ hands,” Peter Koo, Senior Vice President and head of the Mobile Communications Business Health Service Team at Samsung Electronics, which partnered with Kaiser, said in a press release. “It produced higher program completion rates than programs requiring excessive trips to the doctor’s office.”
As reported this month in the New England Journal...
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