ET: I do think it’s difficult to avoid. You have to separate out whether you’re going to work with a company and financially benefit from it or going to do basically independent validation.
KK: Our whole specialty is thinking about ways we can really make acute care delivery more efficient, and certainly better, for our patients. This could be a way for us to assess our patients after they leave the emergency department if they don’t have access to primary care. Maybe the emergency department can follow them for the next 72 hours if they have one of these devices [eg, congestive heart failure with the personal cardiac output monitoring device].
ET: I think that will bolster the confidence of emergency room doctors if people are getting really good monitoring when they leave the emergency department.
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