The Expanding World of Remote Patient Monitoring
We have seen in recent years, a lot of interest in remote patient monitoring, particularly for chronic disease care. To understand why we will turn to numbers. Let’s dive in.
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Our whole lives we are taught that in order to get adequate care we need to make that trip to a hospital or a clinic and have a long wait in the waiting room - all for approximately 15 minutes of the provider’s time. After such a visit, it is not uncommon that we ask ourselves – could I have saved myself a trip and took care of this at home?
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