CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY

Remote Monitoring Reduces Pediatric Asthma Hospitalizations by 58% in Dutch Multicentre Study

- A multicentre Dutch study of 1,278 children with asthma demonstrated that remote monitoring significantly reduced emergency visits by 45% and hospitalizations by 58% compared to standard care. - Asthma control improved dramatically from 68.6% at baseline to 90.1% after 43 months of remote monitoring implementation across four hospitals. - Children using remote monitoring required fewer outpatient visits with a median reduction of 0.62 visits per year, while maintaining high patient satisfaction ratings. - Despite implementation challenges including medication access barriers and data transmission issues, remote therapeutic monitoring showed feasibility in underserved populations with 95% retention rates.