July 29, 2021

Remote patient monitoring: a health IT perspective

"The primary benefits for mobile care units are the fact that they decrease patient travel times by arriving at their residences and ensuring that appointments are never missed. It also relieves the stress of finding transportation for dialysis...

"The primary benefits for mobile care units are the fact that they decrease patient travel times by arriving at their residences and ensuring that appointments are never missed. It also relieves the stress of finding transportation for dialysis patients, outright eliminating the need for the CMS to find alternative transport methods for patients.

By utilizing mobile care units alongside health IT solutions for preventive care services, the CMS can finally do the impossible and establish a basic health care standard for rural citizens."

Thanh Tran is a health IT executive.

He shares his story and discusses the KevinMD article, "Will U.S. health care match Native Americans’ treatment of chronic kidney disease?" (https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/05/will-u-s-health-care-match-native-americans-treatment-of-chronic-kidney-disease.html)