Health System Leaders Say Costs Prevent Greater Use Of Patient Engagement Tech

About half of health system executives and clinical professionals believe that cost is a key barrier limiting widespread adoption of patient engagement technologies and mobile health (mHealth) devices. More than half of health system executives and clinical professionals believe that such technologies can support consumer health efforts and provide important status information to clinical professionals guiding treatment for consumers. However, few payers cover the technologies and devices, and few physicians have a way to integrate input from the devices into an EHR. The lack of payer coverage means that consumers who seek to use mHealth devices must pay out-of . . .