Remote Patient Monitoring Is a Great Idea. But What’s the Best Way to Use It?

MedPage Today October 28, 2024
Fred Pelzman

— We need to figure out how to collect data that patients can really act on

I am a huge fan of remote patient monitoring.

As I’ve written about before, patients spend a tiny fraction of their lives in the office with us, in those direct face-to-face interactions between a patient and a provider. Their doctors’ visits are 20 minutes long, which works out to about 1/500th of a week, so for the vast majority of their life, they’re on their own. And rightly so. Those brief appointments with us are opportunities for us to inspire, to educate, and to reaffirm the importance of different health interventions and sticking with them, in the hope that our patients will carry on...

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