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Assessing the Impacts of Remote Patient Monitoring on the Capacity and Financial Performance of Isala Hospital
Abdelmaksoud, Omar (2022) Assessing the Impacts of Remote Patient Monitoring on the Capacity and Financial Performance of Isala Hospital.
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| Abstract: | Along with other hospitals, Isala Hospital faced capacity problems during the Covid-19 pandemic, due to some factors including the increasing demand for healthcare, shortages in medical professionals, and the ageing population. In response to this, hospitals started looking into more efficient models of care such as remote patient monitoring systems and telehealth solutions. Telehealth solutions are models of care which integrate digital components into healthcare models. The aim of this research is to assess the impacts of transitioning to virtual care pathways on the capacity and financial performance of hospitals. For our research, we take the transition to the virtual care pathway and implementation of the home monitoring programme for the treatment of Covid-19 patients at Isala Hospital as a case study. The home monitoring programme is a treatment method implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic, where patients are discharged earlier from the hospital once they don’t need hospital care, and are monitored online by virtual monitoring nurses from their homes. We assess the impacts of transitioning to the virtual care pathway for the treatment of Covid-19 patients, while also comparing its capacity and financial performance with the traditional care pathway used for the treatment of Covid-19 patients. We define our main research question as: “Is the transition to virtual care pathways beneficial for hospitals from a capacity performance and cost-efficiency perspective?”. The research question follows from our core problem. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management BSc (56994) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/97396 |
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