Remote Patient Monitoring: Transforming Care Delivery in the New Digital Era
HealthTech Magazines January 8, 2025
By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS; Adjunct Professor in Health Informatics, University of St. Thomas-Houston
The term “Remote Patient Monitoring” or RPM refers to the use of digital technologies to collect and relay patients’ data to healthcare professionals. The remote patient monitoring field has grown over the last decade and is at a turning point with enormous opportunities to improve health outcomes, improve patient experience and increase affordability.
Simple technologies can connect patients and doctors in a much more intimate way, where the doctors know what is going on without patients coming to a clinic and disrupting their lives every couple of days or becoming inpatients. RPM has the potential to transform disease management; especially for patients with chronic conditions....