How Patient Monitoring Is Poised to Revolutionize Healthcare

Wearable patient devices can provide healthcare organizations with more varied data, expand options for clinical trials, and make patients more active participants in their own care. Over the past few years, it’s become a business truism that “every company is a data company.” We’ve seen the use of data analytics help business and IT leaders to arrive at new insights and create efficiencies in fields like finance, manufacturing, and agriculture. Healthcare is no exception to this trend, but there are a few unique challenges in the field. For one, healthcare providers have historically only been able to gather health metrics when patients are physically in their offices. Then, even as wearable wellness devices or trackers emerged, the healthcare system initially lacked the necessary mechanisms for clinicians to make use of the data. Most providers had no way of collecting and sorting through patient information from wearable devices and no way of billing for the service.