Remote Patient Monitoring Vendor Connectivity, Technology

Reducing patient visits and improving long-term patient health motivate healthcare organizations to embrace remote patient monitoring. However without the healthcare network to support healthcare monitoring devices, organizations can’t fully support remote monitoring programs. Reducing hospital visits by remotely monitoring patients helps healthcare organizations keep their overall costs down and increase value-based care, according to a recent KLAS report. Remote patient monitoring replaces on-site visits mainly to manage chronic diseases and follow-up recovery care. This results in the increased productivity of clinicians who don’t have to treat as many patients, and saves money by reducing ER visits. “The majority of study participants are very pleased with the success of their RPM programs. Most have achieved measurable outcomes, particularly when it comes to keeping patients out of the hospital (i.e., admits, re-admits, and ER visits),” said report authors. “Even those earliest in their RPM journeys share anecdotal victories, and only a few hesitate to call their efforts a success—not because of failure, but rather because of blurred lines between vendor monitoring and their own outreach work. Heart disease and COPD are the leading use cases, but organizations are branching out to less acute chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension.” Networked remote patient monitoring tools often transmit data at regular intervals to communicate patient vitals.  The data is then transferred to the provider organization. These monitoring tools often use cellular antennas to transmit so data can be constantly shared as the patient moves through everyday life.