`Digital monitoring and adherence to instructions will bring down readmissions, mortality significantly’
Patients’ post-discharge adherence to drug, diet and exercise/physiotherapy instructions from their medical practitioners and strict monitoring of their activities would reduce the rate of readmissions and mortality to a great extent, said Dr. Ranjan Shetty, the Head of Department, Cardiology at Manipal Hospitals.
To make post-surgical monitoring handy for patients, Manipal Hospitals on Thursday entered into a strategic partnership with ConnectedLife, a health management solutions provider, to introduce Fitbit, an intelligent wearable, built on Google Cloud to monitor patients’ progress after high-risk surgeries and procedures.