31-05-2018 15:44 via baltimore.cbslocal.com

Skyping The Doctor? Poll Shows It’s Not Just For The Young

WASHINGTON (AP) — Every morning, 92-year-old Sidney Kramer wraps a blood pressure cuff around his arm and steps on a scale, and readings of his heart health beam to a team of nurses — and to his daughter’s smartphone — miles from his Maryland home.
Red flags? A nurse immediately calls, a form of telemedicine that is helping Kramer live independently by keeping his congestive heart failure under tight control.
“It’s reassuring both psychologically and physicall
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