Healthcare IT Today June 30, 2020
Anne Zieger

A new survey has concluded that the vast majority of patients believe that remote monitoring of their condition can make a difference in their overall health.

The research was conducted by Sony’s mSafety Wearable Platform Division, whose mSafety platform helps healthcare organizations build remote monitoring applications. (For more background on the platform, check out this interview my colleague Andy Oram did with Sony Network Communications Europe’s Arnol Rios, who’s with subsidiary Takeoff Point Inc.)

To conduct the survey, Sony researchers reached out to more than 2,000 patients diagnosed with chronic conditions in the US.

The study found that one in three chronically ill patients responding to the survey have trouble tracking important health measurements such as vital signs. It also...

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