Overview
How a home-based outpatient therapy provider used Sentinel to maintain clinical visibility between visits and strengthen its care model.
Home-based outpatient therapy brings care to patients who struggle to reach clinics — but it also concentrates all clinical observation into brief home visits. This case study examines how one provider used Sentinel to extend visibility between those visits.
The provider equipped patients with Sentinel's smartphone-based assessments as part of their home programs. Between visits, patients completed short walking assessments; therapists reviewed the resulting mobility data before each visit, arriving with objective knowledge of the week's trajectory rather than relying solely on patient recall.
The organization reported several operational benefits in their deployment: visit time shifted from status assessment toward active treatment, home exercise adherence conversations became data-grounded, and therapists reported catching several between-visit declines early enough to adjust plans before scheduled visits. The program also established the data foundation for RTM billing where patients qualified.
These observations reflect one provider's experience with their specific population and workflows. The case's transferable insight: in home-based care, where clinical eyes-on time is scarcest, objective between-visit data may offer proportionally greater value than in any other setting.
Key Takeaways
- Between-visit assessments informed therapists before each home visit
- Visit time shifted from status-taking toward active treatment
- Several declines were reportedly caught between visits
- One provider's experience; benefits depend on workflow adoption