Mobile Monitoring-Enabled Telehealth for Patients with Complex Chronic Illnesses.

ABSTRACT

Telehealth has the potential to improve management of poorly controlled chronic diseases relative to clinic-based care alone. Mobile monitoring-enabled technologies could enhance telehealth for chronic illness care. Implementation in practice settings would rely on automated integration of data into the electronic health record (EHR). We describe the integration and visualization of data from four remote monitoring devices into the EHR that is coupled with the evaluation of an evidence-based nurse and pharmacist-led telehealth care model for patients with uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension. Using this new pragmatic infrastructure, clinicians use the EHR to prescribe for patients a suite of devices. Alerts are placed upon the data that notify a clinician when values go above or below set thresholds. These data are visualized in the clinical record and clinicians use the EHR as a tool for efficiently delivering and documenting patient telehealth encounters.