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Danielle Grant / Chief Product Officer

Three arguments about what remote monitoring should be built to do

Perspectives from a life in leadership.

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Reimbursement and product design5 min read

The billing threshold is not a care plan

Medicare's remote monitoring codes pay for days of readings and minutes of a clinician's time. Products built to fill those counts produce data nobody needs, and leave nurses with less time for the patients who need them.

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Reimbursement and product design

  1. Reimbursement and product design5 min read

    The billing threshold is not a care plan

    Medicare's remote monitoring codes pay for days of readings and minutes of a clinician's time. Products built to fill those counts produce data nobody needs, and leave nurses with less time for the patients who need them.

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Accessibility for older patients

  1. Accessibility for older patients5 min read

    Count the steps before the first reading

    Accessibility in remote monitoring is usually discussed as type size and contrast. For patients in their seventies and eighties, the larger barrier is the number of steps and dependencies between opening the box and sending a first reading.

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Clinical decision support and regulation

  1. Clinical decision support and regulation5 min read

    Decision support ends where the nurse can no longer check the reasoning

    Product teams often shape a risk model so that it fits the decision-support exclusion from device regulation. The test that matters is whether a busy clinician could independently review the basis of the output. When she cannot, the honest course is to treat the software as a device and gather the evidence.

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