The Pain Intervention & Digital Research Program: an operational report on combining digital research with outpatient chronic disease management.

ABSTRACT: Chronic pain affects up to 28% of U.S. adults, costing ∼$560 billion each year. Chronic pain is an instantiation of the perennial complexity of how to best assess and treat chronic diseases over time, especially in populations where age, medical comorbidities, and socioeconomic barriers may limit access to care. Chronic disease management poses a particular challenge for the healthcare system's transition from fee-for-service to value and risk-based reimbursement models. Remote, passive real-time data from smartphones could enable more timely interventions and simultaneously manage risk and promote better patient outcomes through predicting and preventing costly adverse outcomes; however, there is limited evidence whether remote monitoring is feasible, especially in the case of older patie

SUBMITTER: Fu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10869590 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature