Dept. of Uphill Battles

In a post, Patient engagement will be tough task for health tech on InfoWorld http://bit.ly/ZpKCJh

As an example, I learned last week at the HIMMS 2013 conference that one pilot project of at-home wireless glucose monitors at several hospitals reduced readmission rates for diabetics between 19 and 65 percent, thus cutting care costs and reducing serious episodes of illness. But several hospitals discontinued the effort when the pilots were done because they saw their admissions decline, noted Dr. Wayne Guerra, a physician who relayed the findings at the conference.