Remote Patient Monitoring - Overdue or Overused?

N Engl J Med

From Harvard Medical School (K.M., N.S., D.B.K.), Harvard Business School (K.M., N.S., A.D.S.), the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science (A.D.S.), and the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (D.B.K.) - all in Boston; and the Health Innovation Hub, German Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin (A.D.S.).

Published: April 2021

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