An organization delivers a proactive healthcare service. They want to efficiently and automatically collect patient data. What should the organization encourage the patients to do?

Manual daily uploads of at-home screening data introduce delays and depend on patient compliance, making the process neither truly automatic nor real-time.

Internet of Things devices embedded in wearables - such as smartwatches or medical monitors - can continuously capture biometrics like heart rate, blood oxygen, and glucose levels and transmit them automatically to cloud platforms in real time. This eliminates manual data entry, reduces patient burden, and gives healthcare providers an up-to-date, continuous data stream suitable for proactive care.

Self-assessment relies on subjective patient judgment and manual documentation, which is error-prone and not automated collection.

Requiring a nurse to collect data with IoT devices adds a human intermediary, eliminating the efficiency and real-time continuity that direct patient wearables provide.