Healthcare IT News November 30, 2022
Bill Siwicki

“With AI-enabled remote patient monitoring, we are streamlining our clinical workflow, improving our overhead, and, most important, improving patient outcomes,” the practice manager reports.

Sweetwater Medical Associates is a single-clinic family practice and internal medicine facility in Sugar Land, Texas. It has five providers, as well as a staff team including eight medical assistants (MAs).

THE PROBLEM

Since the pandemic, Sweetwater has been perpetually short-staffed. The team always has seemed strapped for time, finding it challenging to monitor at-risk patients with hypertension and obesity to help manage their chronic conditions and look for signs of impending problems.

“We serve lots of patients with chronic conditions, including hundreds with hypertension and obesity, and its crucial to get patient readings to better...

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