Rockville, MD
Medifacts International, Inc., has announced a new innovation in the use of telemedicine, T-SMBP (Telemonitoring Self Measured Blood Pressure).
T-SMBP allows for remote collection of blood pressure (BP) data from a subject’s home. Telemonitoring and telemedicine are actively being implemented through health care providers for general patient care, specifically in patients being treated for heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and hypertension. The transition and implementation of telemedicine in clinical trials provides many benefits to the conduct of the study. The benefits of implementing T-SMBP include:
Medifacts will present best practices and case studies of effective implementation of T-SMBP in clinical trials at The Med-e-Tel 2010 Conference in Luxembourg, April 14-16, 2010.
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