Leveraging IoT and Remote Patient Monitoring to Optimize Home Health Care Delivery
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Abstract
The growing pandemic of chronic conditions, such as cancer, and the building of the demographics towards the aging population have created severe pressure on home healthcare services that need to be firm in their vision and scalable. Episodic in-home care models are traditionally insufficient in early clinical decline detection, which results in costly Hospital readmission and poor patient outcomes. The purpose of the study is to assess the value of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)-based home healthcare delivery offered with the help of the Internet of Things (IoT). It also researches how repetitive monitoring of physiological systems, instant data analytics, and integration of various systems can influence clinical outcomes and simplify the workflow and patient engagement. Mixed-methods research was conducted, and a synthetic cohort patient population (500 inpatients in the home health space) was created and tracked during three months. The IoT devices provided daily vitals such as SpO2, heart rate, and temperature, and triaging alerts were built into a dashboard that offered complete triaging. Quantitative measures such as readmission rates, emergency department (ED) visits, and adherence rates were investigated with the help of the t-tests and chi-square. Thematic analysis of semistructured interviews addressing 25 healthcare managers and 30 patients was done to determine the operational, experiential, and adoption-related factors. Deployment of RPM reduced 30-day hospital readmission by 32% and ED visits by 25%. The realization of medication and vital sign compliance has increased by 40% among the RPM group compared to the non-RPM group. The qualitative feedback indicated the improvement of triage accuracy, decreased clinicians’ workload, and increased patient confidence. Such challenges as difficulties in device setup at an early stage, the lack of digital literacy, and reimbursement issues were considered central barriers. The IoT-driven RPM systems offer a comprehensive and flexible system for increased home healthcare delivery. When used in conjunction with clinical processes and reinforced through patient education, these technologies will minimize the use of acute care and advance proactive prevention. RPM has been recommended to policymakers and healthcare providers as one of the best ways to provide value-based care that can lead to improved results and greater operational resilience.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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