Becker's Healthcare August 30, 2022
Boston Medical Center is remotely monitoring new mothers for conditions like postpartum hypertension to keep the women well and out of the hospital.
The academic medical center employs the Rimidi care management platform, part of Epic’s app store.
“As a safety-net hospital, many of our patients are underinsured and have social determinants that impact their healthcare, and monitoring postpartum [blood pressure] through in-person visits can be challenging due to barriers in care access,” said Christina Yarrington, MD, director of labor and delivery and the division director for maternal-fetal medicine at Boston Medical Center, in a joint Aug. 30 news release with Rimidi.
“Leveraging Rimidi and the connected blood pressure cuffs, which run on local cellular networks, our program has been...
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