mHealth – How Much Does it Cost and is it Clinically Effective?

I wrote in the beginning of 2012 that perhaps that year was the year for mHealth to ‘breakout. ‘  I cited several proclamations and organizational activities to support that claim. mHealth and the use of remote monitoring as an integrated healthcare offering is still not as prevalent as one would think it would be two years later.  Even in the Telemedicine & E-Health LinkedIn Group, one sees angst at the low adoption rate of the use of telehealth solutions.   Inevitably, when I speak with my colleagues and other people involved in healthcare, economic and clinical effectiveness questions prevail.  Two specific conversations I had with clinicians stand out.  In one, the cardiologist had not seen enough evidence that the quality of care and cost would justify a large addition or change to the existing healthcare offerings.  In another, the clinician reminded me that with chronic diseases, one is attempting to get patients to change their behavior, which is very difficult, regardless of any technology involved. With the above in mind, I’d like to offer the following results from the Renewing Health (RH) project in Europe, a randomized control trial which endeavored to compare the use of remote monitoring technologies and workflows with traditional workflows in the management of chronic disease in both economic and clinical terms.  While the final results of the whole study are due out this summer, Veneto, Italy, has presented their findings for congestive hear...
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