Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System instance presents one house health care organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the caliber of care provided to at risk patients who were discharged from needed home care and hospitals. While Oshnock considered that there were actual advantages associated with telemonitoring, he was having difficulty quantifying those benefits and he was concerned about VNHS' ability to continue investing resources in telemonitoring given the realities of the health care compensation environment in which they managed. While several studies had shown the benefits of telemonitoring, Oshnock believed the long-term gains accruing to the health system as a whole were not immediately quantifiable or observable to insurance companies and the hospitals.

From a strictly financial standpoint, this kind of investment would be very hard for VNHS to rationalize. The irony was increased focus on preventative healthcare and that with the new regulatory pressures, telemonitoring pointed to a powerful tool in managing and reducing acute care hospitalizations. Nevertheless, balancing these advantages against limited financial support from other key players in the healthcare system would be challenging.

Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case study solution

PUBLICATION DATE: September 07, 2011 PRODUCT #: 112030-PDF-ENG

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