The shift from fee-for-service to fee-for-performance is changing the conversation around patient care. Reducing readmissions is one benchmark for analyzing the quality of care, and more discussion is happening around bringing telehealth into the mix to improve this metric.
Traditionally, when patients leave the clinical setting, interaction between the care team and the patient decreases. With telehealth and remote patient monitoring, technology allows the provider team to remain in contact with the patient to follow up on regiments and make sure instructions are followed. The result can be a shift in outcomes for the better.
To learn more about telehealth, we sat down with Fadesola Adetosoye from Dell Healthcare Services, who says telehealth allows patients to overcome challenges, like transportation issues, to obtain better primary care and stay in touch with clinicians following discharge.
Watch the video above and let us know what questions you have about telehealth? Is your organization using a telehealth strategy?
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