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Remote Patient Monitoring will Lead Value-Based Healthcare

Posted on April 24, 2024 by

Traditional health insurance reimbursement to providers (though payment is a more appropriate word) for healthcare services and products is at the root of our healthcare crisis. Our traditional fee for service system in the USA rewards hospitals and providers for … Continue reading →

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#DigitalHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring Part 3: The Ideal RPM System

Posted on March 29, 2024 by

Remote patient monitoring may serve patients who are in the post-acute care phase of recovery from a hospitalization as well as those with chronic diseases. Monitoring may consist of communication tools or measurements of medication adherence, glucose measurements for diabetics, … Continue reading →

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#DigitalHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring, Part 2- Operational Models

Posted on March 25, 2024 by

In my previous post, I discussed some generalities of remote patient monitoring (RPM). The current value of the RPM market is estimated at $10.6B. There are diverse clinical and non-clinical environments in which RPM might be utilized. The healthcare ecosystem is … Continue reading →

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#DigitalHealth: Five Fallacies of Remote Patient Monitoring

Posted on March 15, 2024 by

As defined in Wikipedia, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is: “a technology to enable monitoring of patients outside of conventional clinical settings (e.g. in the home), which may increase access to care and decrease healthcare delivery costs.” I was a pioneer … Continue reading →

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Five Imperatives of Patient-Centric Healthcare

Posted on April 3, 2024 by

In previous posts I discuss how patient-centric care differs from patent-centered care and how patient empowerment must precede patient engagement. I would like now to delve into what I consider critical elements of patient-centric care. They all involve technology to … Continue reading →

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Cardiac Patients will Benefit from Digital Health Technologies

Posted on January 22, 2025 by

Cardiovascular disease, specifically sudden cardiac death is the number one killer in the USA and most westernized countries. Many of the technologies which have been developed to address the problems of cardiac diseases have centered on expensive devices such as … Continue reading →

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The Medical App is a Patient Advocacy Tool

Posted on May 8, 2024 by

In his book ‘The Creative Destruction of Medicine’, Dr. Eric Topol highlights a few areas important to the transformation of medicine; wireless sensors, genomics, information systems, mobile connectivity, the Internet, social networking, and computing power. I believe that all of … Continue reading →

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mHealth and Pharma: Opportunities for Patients and Industry

Posted on March 28, 2024 by

No greater is the opportunity for mHealth to break into mainstream healthcare than in partnerships with members of the pharmaceutical community. mHealth’s influence in the sector may be tentacle in the patient care area, the business process area, and the … Continue reading →

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Why Cardiac Rhythm Device Patient Portals Will Start the Digital Health Revolution

Posted on February 3, 2025 by

Heretofore this series has focused on issues specific to patients with implantable cardiac rhythm devices who deserve to access their device’s own data directly via patient portals or PHRs. What I would like to suggest is that if this PHR … Continue reading →

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Why Cardiac Device Companies Want Patients to See Their Own Data

Posted on February 2, 2025 by

In an ongoing series, I have been touching on multiple issues involved in cardiac patients and the data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers, which is heretofore unavailable directly to them. I have not fully discussed the viewpoint of … Continue reading →

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