From Pilot to Policy: Lessons from e-Health Deployed at Scale

As mentioned in previous posts, the United4Health project was intended to test the deployment at scale of mobile health solutions and to integrate those telehealth services as part of the standard of care. Participants took this to heart and used the project to help tackle larger issues of policy, funding, technology, resources and overall workflow. The following interview explores some of these larger issues, specifically:  the need to realign payment models, challenges around the adoption of communications and data standards, the role of test and certification bodies like Continua, overcoming systems integration challenges, patient generated data, and how sensors need to evolve for use in remote monitoring solutions. Europe strikes me as being ahead of the US in eHealth adoption and utilization, and in the following interview, Dr Fensli shares his rich experience earned through academic study and real life patient care via United4Health. I met Dr Fensli while working on the United4Health project, an EU telehealth project that endeavored to demonstrate large scale deployment of remote monitoring services for the management of three chronic conditions: congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and Diabetes Mellitus (Type II). Dr Fensli has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering focused on wireless ECG sensors, and is currently head of the research Centre for eHealth at University of Agder, Norway. Bridget Moorman: Tell me a bit about what is happening in Norw...
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