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Home Telemedicine: A Home Health Care Agency Strategy for Maximizing Resources

Stephen B. Kaufman

Kathleen R. Crampton

American Nursing Care (ANC) conducted retrospective chart reviews to assess the potential of new home telemedicine technology as a way to control health care costs. Using the functionality of the Home Assisted Nursing Care (HANC) network as the home telemedicine system, ANC estimated that 31 % of a selected group of home health care patients and 67% of the patients readmitted to a hospital 30 days after discharge might have benefited from home telemedicine. Such results suggest that home telemedicine may have a significant role to play in managing health care costs.

Key Words: home computers • home health care • home telemonitoring, telemedicine

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1-9 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/108482239600800405


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