Lola Koktysh
Healthcare Industry Analyst at ScienceSoft
Title: mHealth apps preventing readmissions in patients with heart failure
Biography
Biography: Lola Koktysh
Abstract
As soon as HF patients are discharged from a hospital, the countdown starts. 30 days, 60, 90. If a patient avoids readmission during these timeframes, it indicates a successful recovering. Still, nearly 1 in 4 patients is readmitted within 30 days of discharge.
Providers can change the unsettling statistics by staying informed about the HF patient’s health status changes after the discharge. At ScienceSoft, we’ve come to the idea that technology can provide a tool to track patient’s recovery process and allow providers to intervene when it is necessary, avoiding readmissions. We dedicate this webinar to discovering the opportunities of mHealth applications for powering selfi-management in patients with heart failure and providing them with timely feedback from providers. We will discuss:
- The reasons why current HF readmission prevention measures aren’t effective enough
- Key elements of effective readmission prevention
- mHealth as an additional HF readmission prevention measure
- How mHealth enables continuous support of patients’ health needs: Real-life success story
- The end-to-end mobile heart failure system concept
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