Trenholm Ninestein
Trenholm Ninestein
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How Health Tech Can Combat the High Cost of Lifestyle Choices

By Trenholm Ninestein

We’ve all dabbled with apps that affect various parts of our health and wellness, but never in a holistic way. This is an opportunity for the tech sector to help patients drive better health outcomes and reduce overall healthcare costs by showing them how to embark on a path of wellness. It’s just a matter of pulling it together into the right user experience.

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Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent
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Empowering Patients Through RPM

By Jennifer Kent, Ph.D.

Remote care in the home relies both on the quality of patient monitoring and on the insights provided to the care team. There is a real danger that data overload and alert fatigue will undermine otherwise well-designed remote patient monitoring (RPM) and Hospital at Home programs. The software platform and algorithms tasked with integrating and evaluating data must identify the data that matters, when it matters.

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John Mastrototaro
John Mastrototaro

Next Steps in Wearables

By MedTech Intelligence Staff

John Mastrototaro, Ph.D., biomedical engineer and CEO of Movano discusses strategies to improve data accuracy, the convergence of consumer wearables and medical remote monitoring devices and what healthcare providers are seeking in remote data delivery.

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Healthcare Technology
Healthcare Technology

Critical Issues in Remote Monitoring: Data Capture and Quality

By Jennifer Kent, Ph.D.

As more healthcare activities take place from home, passive continuous monitoring solutions and new technology such as artificial intelligence will be critical to communications between providers and patients. In addition, new solutions that offer overnight monitoring will play a crucial role in helping to fill the gaps, particularly in assessing patient deterioration or changes in health conditions. The pandemic has forever changed the trajectory of healthcare and specifically virtual care.

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