What are the major diseases that concern you?

Chronic diseases like asthma, hypertension, diabetes and COPD are major concerns, says HealthMaker Molly J. Coye, MD, chief innovation officer of the UCLA Health System. But improved communication and remote sensors are making them easier to fight.

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These are the big entities that wind up making people sick for years and then kill them off.

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And we know how to tackle them. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Oh, it's a short and very straightforward list. It's chronic diseases, so hypertension, asthma, diabetes,

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COPD, you know, lung diseases. These are the big entities that wind up

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making people sick for years and then kill them off. And we know how to tackle them.

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And so, what we're getting now-- the reason-- if I sound excited, I am. The reason that we're really able to do something about it

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now is we can say, well, if we're taking care of several hundred thousand patients in, for example, the LA region, for our health system,

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we now have a way of tracking how their health is doing, sending them a reminder, getting them to education classes,

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have someone come to their home and put in a remote monitoring system, if we need to find out how they're doing every day.

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So we can catch it early if they're trending downhill and get in there and help them and do something about it.

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So it's a completely different way than just sitting in your office and waiting for somebody to show up. [AUDIO LOGO]