The following appeared a few days ago. Beating Resistance to Home Monitoring March 24, 2008 Health care organizations and information technology vendors still face formidable challenges in convincing private insurers to adopt home health monitoring technologies. Yet, vendors can overcome insurer resistance by providing independently verifiable trial results and further education regarding the benefits of home health monitoring technologies, according to a new study by Parks Associates, a Dallas-based research firm. The study, "Private Insurance and Digital Health Solutions," is based on interviews in January with 20 senior executives from private health insurers. "With U.S. market potential of $2.5 billion in device and service revenues by 2012, the home health monitoring industry has every incentive to convince private insurers, along with other potential payers, of the technology's value and feasibility," said Harry Wang, senior analyst at Parks Associates. More here: ...
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