mHealth Intelligence March 12, 2020
Although wearables are growing in adoption, experts believe that both wearables and smartphones are a scalable approach for remote patient monitoring.
After a 180-day hospital stay, patients using smartphones transmitted data for 32 percent longer than patients using wearables, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. But because smartphones are ubiquitous, experts indicated that both are useful for monitoring patient health behaviors.
The study published in JAMA analyzed remote patient monitoring activity for 500 patients enrolled in Medicaid from January 2017 to January 2019. The study found that 70 percent (69.4 percent) of patients transmitted data among the smartphone group during the 180-day period compared to 58.9 percent for patients in wearables.
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