KevinMD January 10, 2026
We’ve been thinking about remote patient monitoring (RPM) the wrong way.
Picture this. A patient comes home from the hospital after a cardiac scare. They’ve got a smart scale on their chest, maybe a blood pressure cuff on the counter, and a nurse scheduled to stop by later in the week. The care team, the patient, and the tech are all working together in the hopes that things don’t get worse.
The patient feels watched but not necessarily cared for. The clinician gets bits of data, but sometimes too late or too limited to change the course of treatment. It’s a system built to track problems, not necessarily prevent them.
That’s what remote monitoring has come to mean for a...
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