Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is revolutionizing healthcare by enabling continuous, real-time tracking of patients’ health outside of traditional clinical settings. Read our Remote Patient Monitoring special issue to know how RPM has transformed the care delivery model by allowing healthcare providers to monitor chronic conditions, detect early warning signs, and adjust treatments remotely.
Through connected devices and digital health platforms, RPM enhances patient engagement, improves adherence to treatment plans, and reduces hospital readmissions. Discover how this innovative approach to healthcare is reshaping care delivery, making it more proactive, personalized, and efficient, while improving patient outcomes and reducing costs.
Remote Monitoring: Enhancing Traditional Care Without Replacing It
By Debbie Smith, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, SVP, Chief Nursing and Patient Care Officer, St. Joseph Health Technology’s Expanding Role in Patient Care Technology continues to reshape healthcare, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become one of the most practical advancements ...
Remote Monitoring: A Partner, Not a Replacement, in Traditional Care
By Theresa Dillman, VP & CNO, Northwell Health As CNO, I stand at the intersection of tradition and transformation. Every day, I witness the extraordinary dedication of nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals who deliver exemplary bedside care. I also ...
Behavioral Science: The Missing Link in Remote Monitoring
By Neda Khan, Director, Digital Experience, Mount Sinai Health System Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs fail far more often than they succeed. Not because the technology doesn't work—it usually does. They fail because we design systems for ideal patients who ...
The Virtual Pivot: Reformulating Nursing Care Through Remote Health Monitoring
By Ramonita Jimenez, VP and CNO, and Claudia Douglas, Nursing Management Consultant, Hackensack Meridian Health The healthcare landscape is currently navigating a period of profound transformation. For decades, nursing care delivery models (CDMs) have served as the fundamental framework for ...
Merging Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) into Traditional Care Models
By Lee Jones, Chief Nursing Officer, Claiborne Memorial Medical Center RPM is the use of technology in the home setting, such as blood pressure cuffs, smart scales, glucose meters, or wearable monitors that transmits data electronically to a healthcare provider ...
Remote Health: From Crisis to Prevention
By Rama Kolli, CIO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska A tale of the not-too-distant future- Joe is 76 years old and lives alone on his farm in rural America. His wife passed away a few years ago, and ...
Remote Patient Monitoring: A Complement to – Not a Replacement of – Traditional Primary Care
By Charles O. Frazier, SVP and CMIO, Riverside Health As a CMIO, who has also practiced family medicine for over thirty years, I sometimes feel a little guilty that I don’t use telehealth as much as I should. I do ...
General Devices’ User Spotlight: Aurora, IL – 37 Years of EMS Communication at Rush Copley Medical Center
For the past 37 years, EMS Coordinator, Jax Taxis, has been an integral part of Rush Copley’s EMS communications and future-proofing them with the CAREpoint 3 Workstation. In the early 1990’s, Jack Taxis was looking for something more organized for ...
Key Considerations for Designing a Patient-Centered RPM Workflow
By Kathy H. Wibberly, PhD, Director, Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth, University of Virginia School of Medicine With the rise of chronic health conditions, remote patient monitoring (RPM) offers clinicians a non-invasive way to track ...
RPM: The many models behind elevating patient-centered care
By Denise M Sorrentino, Physician and COO, Iowa Heart Center/MercyOne Medicine is famous for acronyms and abbreviations of much longer diagnoses or tests. Within the last few years, a new acronym has surfaced --RPM. At first, this caused confusion among ...
Remote Patient Monitoring: The Standard of Care has Changed
By Elan Hekier, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Daniel Nimoy, Director, Strategy, Care Transformation & OpEx, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group What if our healthcare system was designed where patients were truly at the center? What would care look like if ...
From Vital Signs to Virtual Care: The Evolution of Remote Patient Monitoring in Modern Healthcare
By Dr. Colleen Morley, Associate Chief Clinical Operations Officer-Continuum of Care, UI Health When I first started working on reducing readmissions in acute care, remote patient monitoring (RPM) was just beginning to take off. At that time, it was primarily ...
Strengthening the Health of Our Patients and Workforce with Technology
By LouAnne Giangreco, Interim Chief Medical Officer, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center Recently, I joined a new team at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in California. Like many of the teams I have been a part of in the past, ...
Proactive Care Management at Mahaska Health through Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bob Berbeco, CIO, Mahaska Health Healthcare technology is constantly evolving and driving numerous advancements in delivering patient care. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a subset of technologies that fall under the telehealth umbrella and a type of telemedicine where ...
The Evolution of Virtual Health Using RPM and Point-of-care (POC) Technology
By Iris Berman, VP of Operations, Center for Virtual Health, Northwell Health Personalized medicine is transforming healthcare for some by tailoring treatments to individual patients based on their unique genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Since the pandemic, virtual care has ...
Remote Patient Monitoring: Transforming Care Delivery in the New Digital Era
By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS; Adjunct Professor in Health Informatics, University of St. Thomas-Houston The term “Remote Patient Monitoring” or RPM refers to the use of digital technologies to collect and relay patients’ data to healthcare professionals. The remote patient ...
Modivcare Monitoring: VRI PERS & Vitals Monitoring Plus Higi’s Community Platform & Clinical Network
With the digitization of almost every aspect of our lives and increasing discrepancies in care access for vulnerable populations across the U.S., digital and virtual care platforms have been redefining how healthcare providers imagine extending quality care beyond traditional clinical ...
The Future of Integrated Virtual Care…
It’s not as far off as it seems. In fact, it’s at your fingertips. By Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer, Essentia Health Digital Care is here to stay. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated change to a new model of care; ...
The Remote Revenue Cycle
By Richard L. Childs, FHFMA, VP RCM, Atrium Health-Floyd Medical Center One positive thing we have learned from the global pandemic is that Revenue Cycle teammates and work can be very effectively accomplished in a remote work environment. I believe ...
Drop the wires, but don’t leave the patient behind
By Isaiah Nathaniel, CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health March 11, 2020 is when the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. Since that time, we have witnessed and watched as one of the most resilient sectors ...
UCHealth CARE Innovation Partnership Drives Innovation in Wearable Technology
By Richard Zane, M.D., Chief Innovation Officer, Sarah Wendel, M.D., Administration, Operations, and Quality Fellow & Adeel A. Faruki M.D., Operations, Executive Leadership, and Innovation Fellow, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus When healthcare professionals at the University of Colorado ...
Health Equity and Telehealth
By Raymond Lowe, SVP/ CIO, AltaMed Health Services Before 2020 there had been forward-thinking discussions on the consumerism of medicine, but the pandemic forced providers to focus on patient-centric care through telehealth, chatbots, remote consults, remote patient monitoring, and rich ...
Remote monitoring helps COVID patients at home, where they heal best
By Lance M. Owens, CMIO, Metro Health This happened almost overnight: The federal Centers for Disease Control reported a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared to the same period in 2019. With hospitals ...
A Powerful Feature of Digital Technology Applied to Medicine
By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS Physician Solutions Informaticisit, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston The pandemic has dramatically changed where we work and how we work with one another, with our patients and their families, and with ...
QT Medical-Remote 12-Lead ECG: A Replacement, Not An Alternative!
Dr. Ruey-Kang Chang, CEO What seemed like a page out of a fantasy fiction novel or sci-fi creation is now a reality. Thanks to technology, particularly in healthcare, a significant part has moved to the patients’ homes. The level of ...
Remote Care: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
By Dhrumil Shah, CMIO, Compass Medical Healthcare has never been considered an industry easy to disrupt or willing to embrace innovation. It took a global pandemic to change healthcare as we know it today and I am certain that we ...
Remote Patient Monitoring in the age of COVID-19
By Alka Kohli, MD, MBA, EVP & Chief Population Health and Clinical Officer, Inspira Health While the health care industry has always championed and driven innovation, the COVID-19 pandemic has advanced and accelerated the pace at which many technologies have ...
Covid-19, Remote Workers, and Technology in 2020 and Beyond
By Rose Chaperon, Ph.D., MSHL, HLRM, Vice President of Revenue Cycle, Mercy Iowa City Hospital Having worked in many different environments over the years, from remote, critical access, Indian health, and large suburban hospitals, I have seen how technology has ...
A Pandemic’s Impact on Organizational Innovation
By Sandra Powell-Elliott, MBA, Vice President, Life Sciences and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack Meridian Health system is an integrated, not-for-profit health care network comprised of three large academic teaching hospitals, two children’s hospitals, 12 other hospitals across the state ...
Remote Patient Monitoring and Impacts with COVID-19
By Tara Matthews, CIO-CISO, Einstein Healthcare Network Prior to COVID-19, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) was primarily used for the chronic care business model in a telehealth strategy. The key use cases were heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as ...