Healthcare IT Today January 13, 2021
When COVID-19 really hammered us in April, it was amazing to see how quickly healthcare organizations had to turn on telehealth visits at their organization. It really wasn’t a surprise since the shutdowns and stay-at-home orders really gave healthcare organizations very few choices. Thus we saw the explosion of live video visits and you may remember that we published our list of live video telehealth companies.
While we didn’t see the same explosion in remote patient monitoring (RPM) like we did with live video visits, we have seen a new disposition towards the idea of remotely monitoring patients thanks to COVID. There’s a much greater acknowledgment that we need to find a way to more effectively monitor a patient remotely....