Joseph Rugg's Health Law Blog

Telemedicine is the advanced technology that will allow patients to monitor their own health at home. 

These devices can upload patient test outcomes to an online database, where their physicians can keep an eye out for dangerous patterns in the patient’s health.  The prevalence of telemedicine is slowly increasing and becoming more advanced, leaving the impetus behind improved health with the patient.

Healthcare IT News (2012) recently announced the five areas of healthcare that telemedicine will likely improve greatly over the coming years:

(1) active heart monitoring,

(2) blood pressure,

(3) diabetes,

(4) prescription compliance, and

(5) sleep apnea. 

Physicians and product developers hope that telemedicine will be able to improve patient health by increasing continual monitoring and therefore catching problems before symptoms show up. 

Telemedicine is also expected to decrease healthcare costs in these areas by eliminating unnecessary doctor visits and preventing bigger health problems earlier.

See report: http://ihealthtran.com/pdf/Telemedicine_iHT2.pdf  ;

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