What is Telehealth?

Telehealth is an advanced healthcare tool UPMC/Jefferson Regional Home Health uses to care for, monitor and educate patients in their place of residence.

Telehealth offers healthcare providers access to real-time patient data that is transmitted via phone line or Internet from the patient's location to a central station within our home health organization. This patient data will include blood pressure, weight and pulse oximetry.

We will continue to visit patients in their homes with the added benefit of enhanced monitoring via home Telehealth in between on-site home visits. This added ability to monitor patients in-between visits allows us to reinforce the education process and to maintain closer contact with your patients.

Benefits of the Telehealth Program

• Reduces the cycle of Emergency Room Visits and Hospital Readmissions
• Increases Patient Compliance
• Early Detection and Intervention
• Clear, Concise and Accurate Patient Data in a Timely Manner
• Trending Information on Patient

Benefits of Telehealth for the Patient

• Feelings of Security and Independence
• Empowerment and Education
• Early Detection and Intervention

Patient Admission Criteria

• History of repeated hospitalizations
• History of frequent Emergency Department visits
• Physician Order
• Signed consent for use of Telehealth

Each patient's home environment will be evaluated by UPMC/Jefferson Regional Home Health prior to placement of Telehealth equipment. Any home health eligible patients who are referred to UPCM/Jefferson Regional Home Health for home services and meet the selection criteria will be home health Telehealth candidates at no cost to the patient.