Jarrett Bauer’s grandmother rebounded back and forth from her home to the hospital due to complications from chronic heart failure. Frustrated at his grandmother’s situation, Jarrett resolved to improve hospitals’ patient care systems. He and two colleagues, Rohan Udeshi and Dan Priece, developed a software for patients to do self-monitoring from the comfort of their homes. Eventually, Health Recovery Solutions resulted from their software.
Health Recovery Solutions is an organization that partners with hospitals and clinics to reduce patient re-admissions by using an innovative patient monitoring technology. When patients are discharged from a hospital or clinic after a surgery or some other medical procedure, they are provided with a few things. The patients are given a tablet connected to several Bluetooth monitoring devices, such as blood pressure cuffs, pulse oximeters, thermometers, etc. The tablet comes pre-loaded with a specific treatment plan for the patients to follow or their caregiver to administer. In addition to tracking all the patient’s vital signs, the patient’s diet intake, pictures of wounds, and other medical information can be entered into the tablet. Doctors at the hospital can view everything entered into the tablet and be alerted if the patient displays unstable vital signs. Overall, Health Recovery Solutions makes self-care easy for patients and their caregivers, which reduces hospital re-admissions and, in turn, decreases costs and the drain on medical resources.
Jarrett Bauer recognized the difficulties that patients with chronic conditions face and the inconvenience of frequent hospitalizations. He also realized the drain on medical personnel and resources that these patients present. Consequently, he stepped in and filled a need. Now, his multi-million dollar company, from its Hoboken, NJ office, serves over 15,000 patients, works with 60 agencies, and continues to grow. It will be intriguing to see how Health Recovery Solutions and its monitoring system will keep revolutionizing the healthcare industry.
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Great idea! Rising medical costs in the United States are a problem and it’s great that someone other than the government is looking for a solution. Health Recovery Solutions came up with a practical solution by delivering vital signs directly to doctors so they can reduce patient hospital visits. I bet it won’t be long until this concept is applied to different industries.