Managed Healthcare Executive January 13, 2021
The findings are encouraging for future use of remote digital monitoring.
New study findings demonstrate 65% of patients with diabetes would adopt remote digital monitoring even if it offered no or modest health improvements compared with their current monitoring.
The findings suggested physicians should help patients select remote digital monitoring modalities that align with their preferences and are unobtrusive to their lifestyle to ensure adoption of such technologies.
Theodora Oikonomidi, M.Sc., and colleagues aimed to identify the minimum effectiveness patients reported they required to adopt 36 different remote digital monitoring scenarios. The team recruited adults with type 1 or 2 diabetes. Patients were directed to a study to consent to participate after learning...