A HEALTH OUTCOMES AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT NETWORK AND RELATED METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED PATIENT CARE

摘要

A health outcomes and disease management network and related method is provided for efficiently and effectively monitoring patient status as well as providing recommendations for improved patient healthcare. The system and method employs, among other things, a plurality of remote monitoring stations and a computer network. Each of the remote monitoring stations includes at least one measuring device, adapted to measure a physiological condition of a respective patient, and to provide data representative of the physiological condition for inclusion among patient health-related data pertaining to a respective patient. The health-related data can include, for example, data relating to a patient's heart. The computer network comprises a database containing accumulated health-related data pertaining to health-related conditions and treatment. The computer network is adapted to receive the patient health-related data from the remote monitoring stations via, for example, the Internet. Healthcare managers, each assigned to groups of patients, along with primary care providers, coordinate with each other to establish treatments programs for the patients based on their respective patient health-related data and the accumulated health-related data, and to revise the accumulated health-related data based on the patient health-related data. The computer network is further adapted to provide the accumulated health-related data stored in the database to organizations financing at least a portion of the treatment programs, and is adapted to receive financial data pertaining to the treatment programs from the organizations and to store the financial data in the database.