In a recent issue, we interviewed representatives from Bayada Nurses, the New Jersey based home health care provider. (HCTR, 4/12/10) They had implemented a remote patient monitoring system from Ideal Life and were reporting remarkable rehospitalization rate reductions almost immediately.
Intrigued, we caught up with Ideal Life president Jason Goldberg at the American Telemedicine Association annual meeting in May. With our cameras running, Goldberg explained how his approach to home telehealth is different from other vendors and how it helped Bayada Nurses address two concerns that had previously kept them from considering remote patient monitoring.
The first concern addressed, of course, is the cost of investing in a home telehealth system without support from government and private payers. The other is the resistence posed by patients who object to having their home so cluttered with medical equipment that it begins to look more like a hospital room than a home.
In this ten-minute conversation, Goldberg explains to HCTR editor Tim Rowan how telehealth can possibly be all three: effective, invisible and affordable.
