Bill Siwicki

The Kansas City-based pediatric health system has been improving outcomes and saving costs on care across a vast rural landscape.

Remote patient monitoring has allowed the health system to maintain patient safety while reducing labor-pool costs.

So say experts from Unite Us, who also offer a deep dive into health equity in 2022 and 2023.

The COO of one of the largest direct healthcare providers in the country looks ahead at these and other trends she sees in the year ahead.

One major move was increasing its remote patient monitoring, providing additional tools and support to allow patients to feel comfortable recovering in their own home.

"With AI-enabled remote patient monitoring, we are streamlining our clinical workflow, improving our overhead and, most important, improving patient outcomes," the practice manager reports.

The technology has been proven to greatly reduce times to treatment.

One notable success at the behavioral healthcare organization has been a 35% increase in team members' use of evidence-based techniques since implementing the technology.

Maria Palombini, healthcare and life sciences practice lead at the IEEE Standards Association and a blockchain expert, offers a frank assessment of where distributed ledger technology is making progress and where it's lagging.

Telemedicine has, at long last, become very popular.