When health care providers have access to patient’s home-based monitoring devices that record things such as sleep and eating habits, their weight and their blood pressure, outcomes are better and costs are reduced, according to a recent Boston Globe article. In the article, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka comments that as more of these health-tracking devices are made available to consumers, the more doctors will want to tap into that data for use in preventive patient care. “We want to watch how you’re living in the home,” he said. “We want to make interventions sooner rather than later and we want to keep you out of the hospital.”
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