This appeared last week:7 September, 2016Home monitoring saves lives and moneyPosted by Felicity Nelson The first national trial of home monitoring for chronically ill patients has demonstrated the savings that could emerge from a large-scale rolloutDuring the 12-month trial, undertaken by the CSIRO, telemonitoring almost halved MBS spending and reduced PBS costs by one-quarter.Hospital admissions were reduced by 53.2%, while the average length of stay in hospital dropped by 75.7%.Based on the study, CSIRO estimates a potential $3 billion annual saving to the healthcare budget by providing telehealth services to the 500,000 Australian aged over 65 who would be good candidates for such a program.“This is the first time we’ve done this in the Australian setting – a multi-site, multi-state study looking at the longitudinal difference for people with chronic illness,” lead researcher Dr Rajiv Jayasena told The Medical Republic. “We have shown… there are economies of scale [with...
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