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Smartphones showing the Laguna Health app
Laguna Health launches new tool to help patients after hospital discharge
By Emily Olsen | 01:55 pm | September 08, 2021
Laguna’s tool lets patients contact an on-demand care team, talk to behavioral health specialists, view recovery plans and educational resources, and communicate with their providers.
No link between in-patient portal use and 30-day readmissions, study finds
By Jonah Comstock | 05:28 pm | January 03, 2018
A study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that in one patient population, use or non use of a patient portal had no statistically significant effect on 30-day readmissions or 30-day mortality.
Remote monitoring pilots may drop hospitalizations, but what happens when the program ends?
By Jonah Comstock | 09:38 am | April 23, 2015
A retrospective matched-pair cohort study of 348 patients in Partners HealthCare's Boston-area hospitals shows that remote monitoring in congestive heart failure patients can reduce 120-day hospitalizations and mortality.