• Initiating any follow-up appointments or actions based on the data
• Scanning the data into EMR
• Billing for the time spent with the data
It is a cumbersome and time-consuming process, and each cardiac device manufacturer must be consulted separately. Our practice includes nearly 4,000 patients. This equates to roughly 16,000 total office visits each year, and each office visit involves 6-10 pages of patient device data plus all of the previous steps listed above. My fellow physicians and I were spending four to five hours per week reading through and signing off on our patients’ remote monitoring data. And our care teams were spending just as much time printing, scanning and billing.