Digital interactive patient reported outcome measures for long term conditions

There are more than 15 million people with a long term condition in England alone.1 Healthcare providers around the globe are facing the challenge of providing high quality services for these individuals and constantly evaluating whether these services are effective and offer value for money. There is a need to make the evaluation easier, in real time, and interactive between individuals, clinicians, and care providers. Digital Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) enable individuals’ outcomes to be captured on their smart devices, relaying the information to their clinicians, and linking the outcomes directly to the healthcare records. In our view, there is a need to adopt this approach within all services for long term conditions.Long term conditions for which this would be helpful include cardiovascular problems, chronic respiratory conditions, arthritis, neurological conditions or long covid. Countries spend up to 70% of their health and social care expenditure on caring for individuals…
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