Posthospital management of congestive heart failure (CHF), a chronic disease with frequent hospital readmissions, continues to challenge the already financially burdened health care system and growing nursing shortage. A promising approach to the multidisciplinary management of this and other chronic diseases is Telehealth, defined as the delivery of health care and sharing of medical knowledge over a distance using telecommunication systems. One home health agencycompared CHF patients’ hospital readmissions with patients who received routine home care skilled nursing visits and those who also received remote video telehealth contacts.
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