Scale, Speed, and Smarts: How Smartphones and AI Can Revolutionize Healthcare

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) can certainly play a role. At Vivify Health, the RPM company I founded, they used their Bluetooth biometric devices and platform to drive average reductions of more than 50% in overall care costs, along with significant decreases in mortality. They proved that they could keep at-risk elderly patients — average age of 77 — healthy at home, out of the hospital, when they applied the technology.Regardless of the positive outcomes, they were limited to only a small subset of patients who needed this level of care. The scale of unmet population health needs remains enormous. The primary limiting factor of RPM is the cost of equipment — tablet, weight scale, pulse oximeter, glucometer, blood pressure monitor, and so forth — plus the logistics of getting it into the home and retrieving it, and providing ongoing technical support.