Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a pervasive disease that affects 2.6 million Canadians and costs $1.5 billion annually. Is there a way to reduce acute costs by managing COPD patients better at home?
This IDEAS project with Markham Stouffville Hospital (MSH), Closing the Gap Healthcare and CloudDX focused on implementing a MSH developed COPD self management program by enabling 25 COPD outpatient clinic patients with self-management technology by February 1 2018.