The Benefit of Remote Patient Monitoring (Telehealth) to Home Health Agencies and Their Patients

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Karen Thomas the President of Advanced TeleHealth Solutions, a URAC-accredited Health Call Center providing customized telemonitoring and health call center solutions again joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Karen Thomas discuss the following:

• Briefly, what is remote patient monitoring/telehealth?
• Remote patient monitoring /telehealth has not been widely adopted by home health agencies up to now. Why do you think that is?
• Do you feel that the adoption of telehealth such as diabetes telemedicine will increase in the future? If so, why do you think this will prompt the change or adoption?
• How can remote patient monitoring/telehealth impact the home health business model?
• How does remote patient monitoring fit into the bundled payment models that hospitals are working with?
• How can home health agencies pay for equipment and services?
• How impactful are the start-up costs and is there a way to avoid those start-up costs?
• How does an agency determine if outsourcing remote patient monitoring services is the best option for them?
• What is the most effective way to utilize the remote patient monitoring program?
• How does an effective remote patient monitoring service benefit the patient?

Summary: A well-established remote patient monitoring/telehealth program can improve the finances of home health agencies while positioning the agency to meet the changing environment of post acute care. A telehealth program provides anew methodology to general positive clinical outcomes in a cost effective untraditional manner.

Karen R. Thomas is the President of Advanced TeleHealth Solutions. In 2004, she developed and secured funding for the first Medicaid-covered telemonitoring program within the Disease Management Department for the State of Missouri. Seeing the need that various industries had for cost-saving solutions that could provideimproved health outcomes for patients, she began Advanced TeleHealth Solutions in 2011.

Ms. Thomas is a nationally renowned speaker, using her expertise in telehealth monitoring to educate hospitals, home health agencies, and other companies and organizations about the benefits of telemedicine solutions. The following are just a sample of Ms. Thomas’s other accomplishments within the healthcare industry:

• She is a speaker for Missouri State University’s Health Care Administration Masters program regarding “The Capabilities of Home Health and Its Future”.
• She is a contributing author to “Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within the Community” published by Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd.
• She is a speaker for numerous webinars and conferences providing education as to the benefits of home telemonitoring: generating enhanced clinical outcomes, patient engagement and coordination of care.
• She co-hosted a long-running radio show to educate the public on the availability, accessibility and desirability of home health and telemonitoring.
• She is a board member of the National Association for Home Care, Private Duty Home Care Association, member of the American Telemedicine Association and an Ex Officio member of the advisory board of HealthCare Technology Association of America.

Website: www.advanced-telehealth.com

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