Article Excerpt: Research focused on a mobile device-based rehabilitation program for patients suffering from severe pulmonary disease reveals that smartphone and real-time communications between home-based patients and providers can boost treatment and help reduce hospital readmissions.
Hospital readmission is typically very high for patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with about 20 percent of patients readmitted to a hospital facility within 30 days due to complications relating to the disease, according to Surya Bhatt, M.D. (pictured), assistant professor in the division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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