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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Similarly, sensors for measuring blood pressure, temperature, glucometers, pulse oximeters, and respiratory rate sensors, all integrated with mobile applications, can be used to monitor patients remotely. The technology equivalent of this can be gait recognition sensors using mobile accelerometers.

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How to win physician confidence in remote patient monitoring programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The large variance in the physiological readings and data collected from patient health devices can be bundled into primarily six types of observations mentioned below: Scalar: For example, temperature, weight, steps, pulse, glucose- anything that can be described in a single number field.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The technology often is supported by home medical devices such as glucometers, blood pressure cuffs, thermometers and pulse oximeters. In turn, patients report biometric, objective and subjective data on their health status and social determinants of health via a patient-facing app.

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