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Remote patient monitoring

Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. And now healthcare providers are exploring and expanding new use cases and applications for a wide array of technologies that can enable patients to receive care outside of the proverbial four walls.

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Geisinger and healthcare at home
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The health system and health plan has seen a 4-times ROI from its durable medical equipment...
By Bill Siwicki |
Howard Rubin of Evara Health on RPM
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The FQHC has seen significant improvements in blood pressure and A1c numbers across the patient...
By Bill Siwicki |
Dr. Peter Small of Hyfe AI on RPM and AI
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New monitoring devices and AI algorithms could help reduce staggering costs and improve quality of...
By Bill Siwicki |
Patient in a blue sweater comforter recuperates at home and receives an IV infusion while checking patient portal information on a cell phone.
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Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of...
By Andrea Fox |
Kuldeep Singh Rajput of Biofourmis on remote patient monitoring
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Signs point to yes – and mature remote patient monitoring and telemedicine tools will be key...
By Bill Siwicki |
Jiang Li of Vivalink
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In one example, RPM helped detect impending potentially fatal adverse events 18 hours in advance of...
By Bill Siwicki |
Bronwyn Spira of Force Therapeutics on remote therapeutic monitoring
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With remote therapeutic monitoring, care teams are alerted and can intervene quickly when a patient...
By Bill Siwicki |
Dr. Lynn T. Simon of Community Health Systems
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Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient...
By Bill Siwicki |
Dr. Denise Gomez of TrueCare
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The San Diego-based provider sees around 30 readings per patient per month, showing a high level of...
By Bill Siwicki |
Kimberly O’Loughlin of Health Recovery Solutions on rural RPM
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For example, the Mayo Clinic has shown that 72.5% of remote patient monitoring patients comply with...
By Bill Siwicki |
Telemedicine visit
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Working with Telemetrix and Remote Care Partners, the Atlanta health system is enabling cloud-based...
By Andrea Fox |
CoachCare's Andrew Zengilowski
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The future of remote patient monitoring will be defined by broader adoption, novel devices,...
By Bill Siwicki |
Gulf Coast Medical Center, Lee Health, RPM
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Not too long ago, about 17% of remotely monitored patients needed a higher level of care. Today it...
By Bill Siwicki |
Person in lab attire looks at a scan image and talks to person via screen
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Through a new partnership with Cadence, the health system plans to launch a responsive virtual care...
By Andrea Fox |
Sarah Carroll AVIA telehealth RPM
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Half the population has at least one chronic disease. Care for these sick patients is costly. RPM...
By Bill Siwicki |
Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq Biotricity RPM
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RPM can greatly aid providers treating chronic conditions and ease overburdened hospitals. The...
By Bill Siwicki |
United Health Services Hospitals telehealth
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The New York health system launched telehealth in 2019 and widely diversified its offerings to,...
By Bill Siwicki |
A doctor consulting with a patient via telehealth
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of...
By Kat Jercich |
The Mount Sinai Health Partners Condition Management RPM team
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The result? Greatly improved patient outcomes and big cost savings.
By Bill Siwicki |
Dr. Teresa Sieck, WebCareHealth, remote patient monitoring
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WebCareHealth CEO Dr. Teresa Sieck unpacks the results of the report about remote patient...
By Bill Siwicki |
A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors
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Now more than ever, healthcare IT leaders can use a comprehensive listing of companies that make...
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