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stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: alerts, chronic disease management, costs, elderly, home healthcare nurses, hospitalizations, patient education, patient self care, patient self management, physicians and technology use, telehealthcare, telehealthcare equipment, telemonitoring
Analysis by Audrey Kinsella Headlines like these are becoming increasingly, alarmingly, common: “Report: Telemedicine Increases Death Rate” [in the UK’s Online Pharma Times, 6/5/13] “Unintended Consequences: How Telehealth Can Fail to Manage Chronic Diseases” [University of Texas blog post by a nursing school professor] Both pieces imply that telehealthcare can actually worsen a patient’s condition. […]
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