Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) consists in leveraging technology to monitor patients’ health outside of your clinical settings. It has proven instrumental during the pandemic to maintain the patient and its care providers safe. But not only, for healthcare providers, remote health monitoring can be used to monitor patients between clinical visits. RPM helps to ensure that patients are provided with the medical care they need from their homes

Some specific benefits are:

• Patient engagement increases as RPM devices allows patient to participate in understanding and managing their own health conditions
• Patients get more educated about their own health as they receive continuous information and feedback related to their condition
• RPM contributes to improve patient’s peace of mind as they know constant monitoring will allow an early detection of potential issues
• Quality of care improves as healthcare providers have access to more relevant patient data
• Patients are now able to perform basic health self testing and so healthcare professionals can treat more patients
• Remote patient monitoring systems can help healthcare organizations take better control of their spending and improve performance and operational efficiency

Digital solutions are now necessary and some examples of remote patient monitoring technology include:

• Glucose meters to monitor diabetes
• Heart rate or blood pressure monitors
• Continuous surveillance monitors
• At-home tests
• Caloric intake or diet logging programs