At Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, where Ms. Goterch receives care, staffers do initial patient screenings to assess health status and functional ability and offer coping strategies and advice.
Functional areas could utilize specific digital health solutions when they evolve to the point they are available from vendors, similar to the way other solutions are utilized by the industry.
This is a little reminder of the levels of regulation drugs have to go through that many other products making health claims, like supplements or functional foods, do not.
If successful, awareness of the relevant digital health opportunities and expertise in their appropriate utilization would by that point be located in the individual functional areas.