Home Monitoring

From a study of 250 patients with diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension, the Cleveland Clinic determined that home monitoring (using several devices to report weight, heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar over the Internet) significantly increased the number of days between doctor visits for the diabetics and hypertensives, while it brought CHF patients into their physicians’ offices more frequently. Both could indicate better disease management and greater patient awareness of their conditions, but the report did not mention how the monitoring was handled.  MORE