How Vozo RPM Helps Internal Medicine Reduce Hospitalizations (Alerting + Care Team View)

Internal medicine practices face constant pressure to keep chronic disease patients healthy and out of the hospital. In addition to endangering patient outcomes, avoidable hospitalizations put a burden on healthcare costs and resources. This article examines how internal medicine practitioners might address this issue with the use of Vozo Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM).

By leveraging real-time alerting and a collaborative care team view, Vozo RPM enables early interventions and coordinated care that reduce emergency visits and readmissions. Below, we’ll discuss the hurdles in chronic care management, how Vozo RPM works, and how its alerting and care team features translate to fewer hospital stays for internal medicine patients.

The Challenge: Preventing Avoidable Hospitalizations in Chronic Care

Adults’ avoidable hospital admissions are primarily caused by chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart failure, COPD, and hypertension.

• According to research, improved outpatient care might prevent 12.9% of all adult hospital admissions, the majority of which are related to chronic conditions.
• In an internal medicine setting, physicians often manage patients with multiple comorbidities who require careful monitoring. 
• However, standard care is frequently reactive and episodic; patients may wait weeks or months between consultations, during which time minor health deteriorations may go unrecognized.
• Acute exacerbations that require patients to visit the emergency room might result from missed warning signals, incomplete information from different doctors, and gaps in follow-up.
• High rates of hospitalization for long-term illnesses indicate a chance to enhance the provision of care so that patients remain stable at home.

Preventing these avoidable hospitalizations is a top priority for internal medicine practices, both to improve patient outcomes and to avoid penalties in value-based care models. The challenge is finding a way to continuously track patients’ health status and intervene early – without overwhelming clinicians. This is where remote patient monitoring has emerged as a game-changer. 

Remote Patient Monitoring offers a real-time safety net for managing chronic care by continuously gathering vital signs and symptoms from patients at home. Clinicians can take action before a crisis arises by being informed about worrying trends (such as increasing blood pressure or weight). As a result, patients receive more proactive care since many hospital stays are avoided by treating problems in outpatient settings or through telehealth.

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What Is Vozo RPM, and How Does It Support Internal Medicine?

Vozo RPM is a feature-rich remote patient monitoring software that helps medical professionals monitor patients’ vital signs and health patterns from a distance.

It combines with linked health devices as part of the Vozo health technology suite to gather information on blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose, oxygen saturation, weight, and other parameters. This data is transmitted securely to a centralized dashboard within the Vozo EHR, giving providers continuous insight into their patients’ status without requiring an office visit. 

In essence, Vozo RPM extends the internal medicine clinic’s reach into patients’ homes, enabling continuous chronic care between appointments.

• Vozo RPM gives clinicians access to a single, cohesive picture of every patient’s health.
• Along with current vital signs and past trends, the portal shows complete patient profiles that include demographics, diagnoses, and assigned RPM devices.
• This implies that any enrolled patient’s recent measurements (such as blood pressure logs or glucose trends) and any triggered warnings can be viewed instantly by a physician or care manager.
• Vozo gives clinicians a centralized dashboard of patient vital signs and health information in one location by integrating real-time RPM data.
• Clinical decision-making is enhanced by an at-a-glance summary that makes it simpler to see declining metrics or trends over time.
• A clearer picture of each patient’s health trajectory is provided by objective data that is sent in daily, eliminating the need for providers to depend just on patient recall or rare check-ins.

Vozo RPM is also built to streamline the workflow around remote monitoring. For example, it includes encounter management tools to log RPM-related interactions and track the time spent on care, which is useful for billing RPM/CCM codes.

Integration with the Vozo EHR ensures that any interventions or notes are documented in the patient’s medical record automatically.

Real-Time Alerting: Early Warnings for Timely Intervention

One of the most powerful features of Vozo RPM is its real-time alerting capability. Vital sign readings that deviate from safe ranges are automatically flagged by the platform, which continuously evaluates incoming patient data. The dashboard’s color-coded risk-based alerts, such as orange for moderate risk and red for high risk, immediately alert the care team to patients who could require assistance. In actuality, this implies that an internal medicine physician can quickly determine whether any of their chronic patients are now experiencing negative trends by logging into the RPM dashboard.

Real-time alerts are essentially an early warning system. Instead of waiting until a scheduled visit or until the patient feels sick enough to call, the Vozo RPM system notifies providers of concerning changes as soon as they happen. This early identification is critical in chronic disease management. Consider a scenario of an elderly patient with congestive heart failure: overnight, her connected scale shows a 5-pound weight gain, and her blood pressure creeps up – signs of fluid retention. 

These readings would be highlighted in red on the dashboard by Vozo RPM, and an alarm might even be set up to warn the nurse who is on call. In order to stop the fluid overload from getting worse, the care team can contact the patient that same day to modify diuretics or give advice on low-sodium measures. Without RPM, the patient might have waited until she had to be admitted to the hospital due to acute dyspnea. By catching it earlier, a simple medication tweak at home averts an acute hospitalization.

Vozo RPM makes it simple to respond to alerts in addition to flagging the data. With just one click, physicians can start a secure communication, video visit, or phone chat from the live dashboard. Because of the integration of communication systems, the clinician can promptly call the patient or family to prioritize the matter when they identify an aberrant trend. In many cases, prompt outreach can make the difference between a small problem and an emergent one.

Care Team View: Collaboration to Close Gaps in Care

A Team-Based Approach for Chronic Care Management

Effective chronic care often requires a team-based approach, and Vozo RPM is built with a “care team view” to support collaboration. To manage complicated patients, doctors may collaborate with nurse practitioners, nurses, care coordinators, and occasionally specialists (such as cardiologists or endocrinologists) in an internal medicine practice. By eliminating information silos, the Vozo platform guarantees that all authorized team members have access to the same real-time patient data and warnings.

Shared, Real-Time Patient Visibility Across the Care Team

Everyone participating in a patient’s care can access the patient’s current vital signs, historical trends, and any recent notes or actions by logging into Vozo RPM. The team can respond to a patient’s requirements in unison and stay on the same page thanks to this shared, open vision.

Clear Accountability and On-Duty Awareness

A key aspect of the care team’s view is knowing who is responsible and available at any given moment. Vozo’s live dashboard not only lists each patient and their readings, but also shows the assigned provider or care manager and even notes who is currently on duty. This helps prevent gaps in coverage.

Continuous Coverage Through a Virtual Rounding Model

For example, if an abnormal alert comes in after hours, whichever clinician is covering the RPM dashboard can immediately identify the patient’s context (seeing their diagnosis and baseline data) and take action, even if they aren’t the primary physician. The platform essentially creates a virtual rounding system – the care team can huddle around the digital dashboard just as they would in a hospital ward, except their “patients” are at home.

Coordinated Actions and Built-In Communication

Every member of the team can help. For example, when an alarm goes off, a nurse may contact the patient and then use Vozo’s built-in chat feature to message the on-call doctor about what to do next. Nothing gets overlooked because the system keeps track of all those conversations and actions.

A Unified Patient Story to Prevent Missed Warning Signs

This level of coordination helps to avoid the scenario where warning signs are missed because each provider only sees part of the picture. With Vozo RPM, whether it’s the physician, the chronic care manager, or a specialist consulting, everyone sees the whole patient story – recent vitals, medications, and prior interventions – in one place.

Supporting Multi-Specialty Collaboration for Complex Conditions

According to Vozo, this leads to streamlined workflows and better teamwork: the platform “improves care team collaboration and efficiency” by automating data sharing and documentation tasks. Consider a patient who has several chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. The primary care physician is in charge of general health, the cardiologist is in charge of blood pressure medication, and their endocrinologist may be modifying insulin.

Real-Time Insights That Strengthen Care Plans

All parties can see in almost real time how interventions in one area (such as an increased diuretic dose) are impacting other indicators (such as weight or blood sugar) by using a shared RPM system. Unified, well-coordinated care plans are ensured by such connectivity, which lowers the possibility of an avoidable complication being undetected.

Real-World Impact: Fewer ER Visits and Readmissions

Remote patient monitoring is proving its value in reducing acute care utilization, and Vozo RPM’s alerting and care team features directly contribute to these positive outcomes. 

Numerous case studies and data points highlight how early intervention and coordinated care cut down on emergency visits and readmissions:

50% Fewer Readmissions

• A cardiology group in Arizona found that heart patients enrolled in an RPM program had only a 7% 30-day readmission rate, versus 15% in the control group, roughly a 50% reduction in hospital readmissions after one month. 
• This dramatic improvement underscores how catching issues early post-discharge prevents patients from bouncing back into the hospital shortly after a hospitalization.

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Improved Chronic Condition Outcomes

• Across chronic diseases, studies have noted substantial drops in hospitalization rates after implementing RPM. 
• For example, heart failure hospitalizations decreased by ~30%, COPD by 45%, and hypertension-related hospitalizations by 50% with RPM programs in place. 
• Diabetes admissions also fell by around 40% in RPM users. 
• These reductions are attributed to timely adjustments in treatment triggered by remote monitoring data – exactly the kind of proactive care Vozo RPM facilitates. 
• Fewer exacerbations of CHF, COPD, or diabetic complications mean fewer trips to the emergency department and fewer inpatient stays.

Success of Team Monitoring Models

• The University of Michigan’s RPM program not only saw a 59% drop in hospital admissions but also demonstrated the power of a dedicated care team approach. 
• In their model, nurses and advanced practice providers monitored patient dashboards 7 days a week and escalated issues to physicians for intervention via calls or telehealth. 
• This closely mirrors Vozo RPM’s care team view and alert workflow. 
• The program’s success – including an estimated $12 million in savings from avoided hospitalizations- shows what’s possible when real-time data and team coordination are put into action.

Patient Engagement and Adherence

• Increased patient participation is another frequently disregarded advantage.
• Patients are more likely to take their meds and modify their lifestyles when they are aware that they are being watched and have access to their own data via applications or portals.
• Vozo RPM allows healthcare professionals to provide patients with education and feedback based on their daily readings.
• This continuous engagement can prevent conditions from spiraling out of control. 
• In effect, RPM turns patients into active partners in their care, which leads to better self-management and fewer emergencies.

From these examples, it’s clear that real-time alerting and collaborative care oversight aren’t just fancy features – they save lives and keep patients healthier at home. Early detection of deterioration means internal medicine practices can resolve issues in outpatient settings or via telemedicine, avoiding many costly hospital admissions. 

And when the whole care team is connected through Vozo’s platform, there’s less chance of “communication failures” that so often contribute to patients falling through the cracks.

Vozo’s Remote Patient Monitoring Solution

Remote patient monitoring brings healthcare checkups to your fingertips. With the support of RPM devices, healthcare practices become straightforward and convenient for both patients and providers.

Vozo RPM solution is the best option to adapt for healthcare professionals. Our remote patient monitoring solution will help track and evaluate patient vital signs and health data.

It is advantageous to communicate with patients digitally to adjust treatment plans and educate them about their health conditions. Our RPM program will allow you to improve patient health outcomes and reduce readmissions. 

Leverage Vozo’s Remote Patient Monitoring Program to provide healthcare conveniently.