Medical Xpress September 2, 2021
A study by Mayo Clinic investigators highlights the development and implementation of Mayo Clinic’s large-scale COVID-19 Remote Patient Monitoring Program, which has served more than 7,000 patients across 41 states.
The study evaluated the impact of the program, including:
- Feasibility
- Safety
- Patient engagement with the technology
- Rate of alerts and escalations managed by virtual care teams
- Use of acute care resources
- Patient clinical outcomes
Results of the study are published in npj Digital Medicine.
“Our study investigated how our established Remote Patient Monitoring Program with centralized nursing that supports chronic disease management could effectively be adapted to serve a large number of patients with an acute condition such as COVID-19,” says Tufia Haddad, M.D., medical director for the...