Inside Digital Health November 11, 2019
Consumers have been fueling the rise of wearable technology, such as fitness trackers and mobile apps, to track their health as smart technology becomes more widely available. This trend has also given rise to medical wearables, or connected devices, that are able to track and enable the management of diseases, such as diabetes, remotely. In fact, research shows the number of adults in the U.S. who own a wearable device has grown from 39.5 million in 2015 to more than 178 million in 2018. Despite their wide acceptance, however, the healthcare sector has been slow to embrace the next step, remote patient monitoring (RPM), as part of regular practice.
Originally, much of the early hesitancy around implementing RPM centered on...
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