Forbes December 3, 2024
The potential number of use-cases for AI in healthcare settings seems to be increasing at an exponential pace. Moving beyond uses for research and development, customer service needs, reducing administrative documentation burdens or easing regulatory processes, the latest trend by hospitals is to leverage the technology to help monitor patients.
In the most traditional sense, remote patient monitoring (RPM) refers to using digital technology to help monitor patients outside of traditional healthcare or clinical settings. For example, if a patient has a chronic condition, a wearable device or tracker can help monitor the patient and collect data over long periods of time and collate that data to provide the physician with more insights during the next appointment. The value is...