Empowered Patient Podcast Advantages of Virtual Healthcare and Virtual Support with Dr. Nora Zetsche Veta Health
Dr. Nora Zetsche, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Veta Health, a health tech company, has designed a continuous support solution for patients that includes virtual care and virtual support of in-person care. Remote monitoring includes patient-reported data, text messages, tracking from wearables and other passive sensors. Integrating existing electronic health records allows providers to incorporate the virtual data to enable clinicians to make appropriate treatment decisions.
Nora explains, "It's always tricky with these buzzwords in health tech because everyone ends up having a different interpretation of them. And so, for us, remote monitoring isn't just what came about in the pandemic, which is these reimbursement codes around remote patient monitoring. Still, it's a whole gamut of virtual care extension into patients' homes. And a part of that is how we seamlessly get information from the patient to the caring clinicians."
"And that is, for us, that remote monitoring, that on the one hand, entails the data from wearables that may be collected passively. It can contain survey data from the patient directly, patient-reported outcome data, and the interactions that clinical teams and clinical staff have with the patient as the patient is at home. This can be done asynchronously through text messages, secure messaging, and synchronously through telehealth. So it's the rest of how we get better insights into how the patients are doing in their homes or outside of clinical settings and how we better use those insights to support these patients."
"There's a huge fear of just a sea of data you have to wade through to get insight into the patients. And that's never been our intention. We don't just collect data for the sake of collecting data and then give it in raw format to the clinicians. Our software platform has analytics and workflow tools to parse through the data, figure out which data is relevant for a clinician and a given patient at a given time, and prioritize that data for the clinicians. It gives the clinicians additional context to that data."
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