This local report from the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, near Cisco System’s Research Triangle Park campus, is a bit of a puff piece.  It opens pleasantly with one of Cisco’s 4,300 Research Triangle Park employees being examined by a Cisco Health Center physician in San Jose, CA via Cisco’s Health Presence telemedicine platform that incorporates a high-res camera, electronic stethoscope, and other remote examining devices.  But here’s the nugget justifying these surely money-losing tests in far-flung rural health systems in California and the Southwest: 

In this otherwise excellent article on the Federally funded ‘Money Follows The Person’ program in 29 states in the US that helps to transition residents from nursing home or other long-term care (LTC) facilities to individual or small group homes, restoring… Read moreMoving from long-term care to home–where is the remote monitoring?