AI-powered RPM boosts care for chronic conditions while saving costs
Healthcare IT News August 19, 2024
Artificial intelligence is helping improve remote patient monitoring technology, with especially promising applications focused on diabetes. One CEO discusses the quality and cost-efficiency promise of “the next generation of remote care.”
Roughly one in three Americans, 96 million adults, has prediabetes – but only 2-3% are offered help to prevent progression to full-blown disease.
The medical effects of diabetes are significant, of course – affecting eyesight, circulation and even, in severe cases, requiring amputation. But there are other implications too. With untold healthcare resources devoted to managing the myriad medical risks of the disease, adequately addressing diabetes – and, ideally, preventing it – would save American taxpayers immense sums.
Remote patient monitoring holds huge promise to help treat and...