American Hospital Association March 7, 2023
For all the benefits that wearable wellness devices offer, several major hurdles remain for consumers and their doctors to optimize the value of this information.
Generally, physicians are only able to gather these health metrics when patients are physically in their offices. In addition, most providers initially had no way to collect and sort through patient information from wearable devices and no way to bill for the service.
While health monitoring remains an emerging field, Brian W. Anthony, director of MIT’s master of engineering in manufacturing program and co-director of MIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center, recently outlined in MedCity News key ways that remote patient monitoring could improve health care.
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