The New House Call

July 30, 2013 | Doctors may not make house calls anymore, but your in-home health monitoring devices--scales, blood pressure cuffs, glucometeres, etc.--could send data directly your electronic record so your physician can track your progress. The system launched last month in Boston at Partner's HealthCare. “We want to watch how you’re living in the home,” John Halamka said. “We want to make interventions sooner rather than later and we want to keep you out of the hospital.” Boston Globe