Remote Patient Monitoring Goes Mainstream, And Healthcare Transformation Follows

Forbes January 11, 2021
Stephen Wunker

Remote patient monitoring has finally gone mainstream. After more than two decades of cultivation – from cardiac telemetry to Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuffs and now to wearable devices – the technological progress of remote patient monitoring (RPM) has finally intersected with other trends in medicine such as telehealth (and of course COVID) to make this a normal, everyday practice. Will it remain that way? If it does, what will the impacts be?

The Current Inflection Point

First, let’s explore what makes this the time for RPM to have mass adoption, moving beyond people with costly implantable devices or the fringe of patients who embrace the “quantified self” movement. What’s changed?

● Patient habit – Major innovations often lurk on the...

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