MedCity News March 11, 2021
With its ability to extend care into the home for all patients, including high-risk and high-acuity patients, and provide a data-first approach to healthcare, this next generation of RPM holds the key to reshaping the health care system into one that will work better for patients and providers alike.
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is not new. In fact, products like HomMed (now owned by HoneyWell) and Cardiocom (now owned by Medtronic) are over a decade old. While Covid-19 has created new buzz around virtual care, many health systems have been doing some form of remote health monitoring for many years.
However, in recent years, RPM has fundamentally evolved, enabling more sophisticated clinical monitoring. Legacy vendors known for their medical devices...