HealthTech February 17, 2021
These steps can help care providers build out effective remote patient monitoring programs.
The most important benefit of remote patient monitoring (RPM) is that it helps clinicians remain vigilant about treatment-sensitive conditions that, if left undertreated, have a high degree of morbidity. RPM gives a more clinical focus to conditions that need extra attention from healthcare professionals.
For example, with RPM for a disease such as congestive heart failure (CHF), patients’ weight can be closely monitored over months to keep them out of the hospital. If they don’t fill their medications or if they’re having a heart attack, health professionals can intervene. Under normal conditions without RPM, these patients are generally seen every six to eight weeks for office visits,...
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