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There are so many questions around Remote Patient Monitoring in research, that I decided to combine them all in this article.
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Remote patient monitoring is a method of gathering patient data outside traditional healthcare settings using information technology trends.
Examples of RPM devices:
There are many ways of how RPM is used in an operational setting.
One includes monitoring the patient’s condition by providers between visits. This is a great opportunity for chronic disease patients because most patients see providers once in 2-3 months, and now there is a way to track their condition between visits.
There is also detecting adverse events early to recognize signs of severe patient deterioration and hospital admission. For example, RPM can assist in fall prevention when a device immediately alerts nurses and techs when a patient attempts to exit their bed.
Moreover, facilitating care in the patient home helps patients with chronic conditions to feel more comfortable and reduce costs while having lower stress levels.
You can use RPM is perfect for monitoring patients with specific conditions to improve care. RPM is the easiest way to collect tons of data without disrupting people’s lives.
Also, you can PRO (Patient Reported Outcomes) to collect patient feedback and health state via questionnaires. It helps track the condition over time and improves patient-provider communications.
Healthcare providers can make proactive clinical decisions with real-time visibility into patient conditions.
Alerts are visual and audible messages automatically generated for a vendor’s RPM dashboard (RPM software). These alerts occur when a patient’s physiological data points exceed target ranges or thresholds set by the provider for each patient.
The provider would get an alert once there is an onset of an adverse event, such as heart failure; they would also know if the patient does not move, does not eat, or gets out of bed which could be a sign of patient deterioration.
In other cases, alerts can detect mental deterioration. RPM can help remotely monitor patients and prevent episodes of mental illness when they start to develop or track any communication issues.
Unlike other telemedicine delivery methods, RPM services do not require interactive audio-video or virtual visits, nor does the patient need to be in rural areas. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices allow healthcare providers to monitor, report, and analyze acute or chronic conditions of patients outside hospitals and clinics.
Examples:
I would say that two trends are the most important.
If a patient received a certain diagnosis, was treated with a certain medication, had certain comorbidities, and reported certain symptoms, this patient is like this other patient cohort that ended up in the ER.
Artificial intelligence can now bring insights to doctors and provide predictive skills to assist in patient care. Doctors can find it themselves, but the time and data they have to sift through to find it is very difficult in their daily work.
By using AI to provide these predictive insights as a decision support tool, physicians can make better, more data-driven decisions.
Continuous real-time RPM is a more advanced technology that allows healthcare providers to monitor and track patient vital signs without significant delays. In the medical field, delays in treatment increase the risk of complications such as permanent disability.