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Straight Talk on Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring
You MUST read Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar’s article “Quality, Cost and Connected Health” posted on The Health Care Blog.
Lessons learned include:
- Feedback changes behavior
- Adherence is a forgotten opportunity
- Providers are ready to engage, but need to be led
Dr. Kvedar is Director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. The Center for Connected Health is a leading provider focused organization promoting innovations in telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies. Dr. Kvedar is an advisor to the e-CareManagement blog.
Joe, you also are the winner of today’s POE (plain old English) award for an article well written!
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All of Joe’s article and the comments following it certainly hit the issue clear on its head, in that there are several elements to the solution. One element in specific that Joe refers to, being adherence, is probably the most crucial of all. It’s not enough to have a technical and payment system that works, what’s also needed is a means of empowering the individual to want to adhere. Without that, solving these other issues will be have been a huge exercise without significant result.