Innovations in mobile technology have placed remote healthcare management at the forefront of advanced medical care. The ability to record a patient's heart activity at home has been available for some time. But this method used a recording device worn by the patient, who had to be taken to a hospital or doctor's office for a medical professional to analyze. Today, real-time monitoring in the patient's home is a reality. Three telecom giants have entered the wireless healthcare management space with the aim of providing advanced medical care through new digital delivery systems. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint have partnered with healthcare monitoring providers to provide in-home services for patients with chronic conditions. Valued Relationships Inc., a healthcare monitoring provider, works with AT&T to provide services to patients with chronic respiratory and heart conditions. "Health plans and hospitals will no longer have to actively monitor information because VRI's call center will monitor it for them. VRI will only contact them in the event a clinician is needed to provide the necessary care to prevent them from being hospitalized. 1Healthcare and technology professionals anticipate that the home care delivery model will continue to expand. This method of care raises some questions and concerns for potential patients. whether this type of health care will replace or minimize the need for a person to see a doctor or attend a hospital appointment New technologies could minimize the human interaction and jobs currently needed to provide the. high level of care that many people expect, health care administrators have already identified the enormous...... middle of paper ......'. OSC online. Retrieved May 25, 2014, from http://www.csoonline.com/article/2131705/privacy/wireless-tech-makes-health-care-security-a--major-concern-.htmlLewis, N. (nd). AT&T aggressively moves into remote patient monitoring - InformationWeek. Information Week. Retrieved May 26, 2014, from http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/atandt-moves-aggressively-into-remote-patient-monitoring/d/d-id/1104340?Ost, D. (November 7, 2011). ). 10 ways mobile medical computing is putting care back into healthcare. Forbes. Retrieved May 26, 2014 from http://www.forbes.com/sites/dell/2011/11/07/10-ways-mobile-medical-computing-puts-the-care-back-in-healthcare/ mHealth in an mWorld. (nd). http://www.deloitte.com/. Accessed May 26, 2014, from http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/us_chs_2012_mhealth_HowMobileTechnologyIsTransformingHealthCare._032213