Poll: Seniors ready to Skype docs, worry about care quality

Poll: Seniors ready to Skype docs, worry about care quality

6 years ago
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https://apnews.com/5e397f8116724a9f8eed2782db903d6e

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every morning, 92-year-old Sidney Kramer wraps a blood pressure cuff around his arm and steps on a scale, and readings of his heart health beam to a team of nurses — and to his daughter's smartphone — miles from his Maryland home.

Red flags? A nurse immediately calls, a form of telemedicine that is helping Kramer live independently by keeping his congestive heart failure under tight control.