While remote patient monitoring is more common among adults, our friends at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are bridging the gap by implementing 11 remote management programs for pediatric patients. Initially, CHOP focused on infants with complex heart conditions, equipping them with a mobile app for telehealth check-ins and digital vital sign monitoring tools including pulse oximeters, a digital baby scale, and a digital stethoscope, the latter used during synchronous telemedicine visits. Remarkably, one in eight patients enrolled in the program experienced significant findings from the device, leading to changes in their treatment. Encouraged by this success, CHOP expanded remote monitoring to other clinical areas. Once fully enrolled, CHOP plans to remotely monitor 11,000 children each year. Check out one example where remote monitoring made a lifesaving difference. https://lnkd.in/gTYbdy9e Congrats, folks! #healthcare #healthIT #remotemonitoring
Epic Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - That is so wonderful to hear about the mobile app to check vitals. If interested, some years ago, I blogged/wrote about how even infant's emotional status could be monitored too, just like other vital signs, often indicating pain or other discomfort, via monitoring galvanic skin response and/or heart rate variability, both of which are indicators of "stress" of some sort. If interested, let me know and I can update you on this. Good Luck with this.
The lessons from #telemedicine projects run by US providers are proving immensely helpful around the world especially in the developing world. What is also impressive is that a select few #telehealth providers from the developing world have now matured to support US provider organizations reduce burnout. This is a fine example of giving back to the society.
It's incredible to see how technology can make such a significant impact on pediatric care. Kudos to Epic for highlighting this transformative work.
Ya'll are earth angels 😇 💖
Great innovative work done by the CHOP digital health team. Go CHOP!
Exciting times! So excited to see this expanded for the littlest patients.
Hope the baby gets better soon!
That’s so wonderful!
Great to see this - I’m currently working on a project to Optimize the CHOP Baby/Peds Echo Read/Results into PennChart for Penn Medicine. It’s nice to be working with both teams from CHOP and Penn Medicine.