Analyzing the Challenges and Benefits of an Inpatient Telehealth Platform

A robust in-patient telehealth platform can save a health system millions of dollars, reduce workload stresses for care providers, and, most importantly, improve care outcomes.

That’s the take-away from officials at the Yale-New Haven Health System, which deployed more than 1,800 connected health devices across the seven-hospital system and studied the effects between March and August.

From handheld and bedside mHealth devices and enables providers to talk to each other and to patients to telehealth carts that facilitated improved care management and coordination, the project not only helped the system take on the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic but gave officials a blueprint for future care strategies.