Major EU Remote Monitoring Pilot Results

This post looks at some lessons learned from remote monitoring projects in Europe.  This and subsequent posts are based on my last eight years of supporting these projects combined with some thoughts from my implementation experience of technology systems in many different scenarios over the last thirty years.   I hope that some of it will be of value to the readers wherever they are in the healthcare industry delivery chain. Overview I’m finishing up support  of two long-term projects based in Europe that are focused on using remote monitoring technologies and integrated platforms to support chronic disease management.  One of the projects, United4Health, is a follow-on to the Renewing Health project.  Renewing Health’s goal was to determine if remote monitoring systems used in clinical workflows in the support of chronic disease management were more or less cost effective and clinically efficient than traditional clinical workflows. United4Health’s goal was to demonstrate the use of remote monitoring systems in the management of chronic diseases at scale, i.e., implementation of a remote monitoring system as part of the standard of care. A typical clinical workflow (after the initial diagnosis has been made) involved a patient seeing a clinician at their office or clinic at some pre-determined interval, every 6 months, for example. During these encounters some physiological parameters were measured, some questions answered, and then if needed a therapy adjus...
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