McKnight’s Senior Living January 11, 2024
Healthcare providers — even senior care providers, which often may be slow to adopt new technology — increasingly may be buying into the use of remote patient monitoring tools.
And the premise is a good one: Combined with artificial intelligence, wearables or passive sensors can collect health vitals, build a behavior pattern and then flag a concern before an older adult has a falling emergency or suffers a heart attack.
Although the concept of RPM is gaining traction rapidly, the next step for healthcare organizations is to address more granular questions such as how long should individuals be continuously monitored and who gets to see the data.
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