Medical technology is moving from the clinic to the home, even as the healthcare industry struggles to adjust to the home-based business model, one expert told Design News.
"The challenge in remote patient monitoring today is not the technology," said Steven Dean, global healthcare segment lead for Freescale Semiconductor. "The technology has been available for at least a decade. Now, it's more an issue of the reimbursement climate."
Speaking on a recent Design News radio broadcast, "Embedded Angles for Medical Products," Dean said that memory, processing, and communications technology have reached the point where many patients could be adequately monitored at home.
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