Bosch Healthcare chief is bullish on telehealth-enabled care management

An article in the September issue of policy journal Health Affairs looked at a CMS demonstration project involving care coordination with Robert Bosch Healthcare’s Health Buddy telehealth appliance. Researchers from Stanford University and economic consulting firm Analysis Group found that the Health Buddy system helped trim spending by 7.7 percent to 13.3 percent, or $312-$542 per person each quarter, on Medicare patients with various chronic diseases at two multispecialty clinics in the Pacific Northwest.

“These results suggest that carefully designed and implemented care management and telehealth programs can help reduce healthcare spending and that such programs merit continued attention by Medicare,” they write.