Remote Patient Monitoring Collaboration Aims to Enhance Chronic Care

ScionHealth, a health system with 79 facilities, has partnered with health technology company Cadence to provide remote patient monitoring (RPM) services to patients with chronic conditions. 

As patients battling one or multiple chronic conditions often face difficulties obtaining adequate care, virtual options are seen as a valuable care delivery modality for this population. Cadence and ScionHealth forged the collaboration to increase access to remote patient monitoring technology for chronic care.

As a health technology company, Cadence offers a remote patient intervention solution and assists patient-centric health systems with implementing the platform. ScionHealth is a health system that operates 79 hospital campuses, including 61 long-term acute care hospitals and 18 community hospital campuses, across 25 states. 

Under the partnership, ScionHealth will implement a remote patient monitoring and virtual care program leveraging Cadence's technology at its 18 community hospital campuses in 12 US states. Initially, it will support care for hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

“At ScionHealth, we are committed to advancing innovative healthcare solutions in order to serve patients where and when they need care,” said Rob Jay, CEO of ScionHealth, in a press release. “Our partnership with Cadence will allow us to seamlessly extend care from our community-based hospitals and our long-term acute care hospitals to patients at home, both expanding access and improving the quality of care for patients managing chronic conditions.”

The program will eventually be extended to ScionHealth's specialty and long-term acute care hospitals.

“We are proud to partner with ScionHealth – a progressive, forward-thinking healthcare system – to define a new standard for the delivery of care over the next decade,” said Chris Altchek, founder and CEO of Cadence, in the press release. “Cadence’s dedicated clinical care team and technology will extend the care of ScionHealth’s clinicians, providing more responsive, personalized care to every patient.”

Cadence's experience working with providers to implement RPM services is growing.

In February, Cadence struck a partnership with Community Health Systems to treat patients with chronic conditions through RPM. More specifically, the organizations began working together to review patient data and medical history to create customized treatment methods.

These partnerships indicate that RPM is increasingly effective in treating various chronic conditions.

A study published in August found that RPM and health coaching were effective treatment methods for COPD. For many patients with COPD, quality of life suffers. However, the study concluded that the quality of life for COPD patients improved using RPM, leading to enhanced physical and emotional states.