When it comes to healthcare, preventive measures are just as important, if not more so, than curative ones. Telemedicine and remote monitoring are ways in which technology has enabled us to help keep people’s chronic health conditions stable and to provide patients with better quality of life.
In an article by Kim A. Schwartz and Bonnie Britton in the North Carolina Medical Journal, they describe remote patient monitoring as a way to track the vital signs of patients with chronic diseases. It offers more frequent contact between the patient and the primary care provider, which in turn allows for earlier detection of any potential problems. With remote patient monitoring, primary care providers have access to “real-time alerts, resulting in a proactive, affordable option for best-practice health care.”