Patient-Centered Healthcare via Patient Generated Health Data

Hospital and health system executives are developing and implementing new tactics to meet the healthcare industry’s core strategic need: a higher value of care at lower cost. This objective has been aided by advanced technological solutions in medical-grade remote patient monitoring (RPM) and consumer-grade devices and apps that track a wide variety of factors including biometric indicators, activity, sleep, moods, and emergency response. As a result, patient-generated health data (PGHD) has increased the potential to change the practice of medicine from a haphazard and episodic model to one based on a continuum of care model marked by the availability of real-time data that can be managed to create actionable intelligence about the patient. However, the US healthcare system is facing a variety of challenges that make it difficult for patients and providers to benefit from the increased flow of PGHD.