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AI-powered RPM Boosts Care for Chronic Conditions While Saving Costs
The medical effects of diabetes are significant, of course – affecting eyesight, circulation and even, in severe cases, requiring amputation. But there are other implications too. With untold healthcare resources devoted to managing the myriad medical risks of the disease, adequately addressing diabetes – and, ideally, preventing it – would save American taxpayers immense sums.Remote patient monitoring holds huge promise to help treat and improve the lives of chronic disease patients, including diabetics. And the rise of artificial intelligence and automation offer big opportunities to improve RPM technology.They interviewed Nissim to discuss diabetes treatment challenges, how RPM can help overcome some of these challenges, how AI can boost RPM technology when dealing with chronic illnesses, how adequately addressing diabetes can save taxpayers money, and what Nissim calls "the next generation of remote care."
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A. Whenever you hear about diabetes today, the No. 1 topic is that GLP-1 drugs have taken off in recent years in a really big way. And that has been a transformative experience for people who are on those drugs for two reasons. First, they do help you better control your blood sugar. Second, and this probably is what gets the most attention, people who are taking a GLP-1 drug are losing a lot of weight.Which is a good thing. The problem is these are forever drugs, meaning patients must be committed to taking them for life. I doubt anybody wants to do that, but they all end up there because people become dependent on these drugs.But not everyone should be taking GLP-1 drugs, and they're not always covered by insurance. So, there's a growing trend of people paying for these drugs out of pocket, which is incredibly expensive and thus not very equitable.
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