mHealth Intelligence August 29, 2019
– Federal regulators are asking for examples from telehealth providers on how they offer secure remote patient monitoring programs.
The National Institute on Standards and Technology (NIST) is set to post a notice in this week’s Federal Register calling for help from the connected health industry “to provide an architecture that can be referenced and guidance for securing a telehealth remote patient monitoring (RPM) ecosystem in healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) and patient home environments, including an example solution that uses existing, commercially, and open-source available cybersecurity products.”
Backed by growing support from payers (including Medicare) and improved telemedicine technology, hospitals and health systems are launching RPM programs to gain insight into their patients’ activities outside the healthcare...