Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a flourishing delivery model in the long-distance care sector. And rightly so, with the multifold benefits it accords patients and healthcare professionals. Following are some advantages of using RPM:
– Improved Chronic Care Management: RPM can improve the management of chronic illnesses by collecting and analyzing more patient-generated data like blood pressure in hypertension and blood glucose in diabetes. This is an especially valuable system for countries like the US, where around 90% healthcare costs incurred are related to chronic conditions.
– Reduced Readmission and Emergent Situations: Constantly checking on a patient’s vitals leads to improved management of chronic illnesses, thus resulting in prevention or delay of costly events like emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
– Increased Revenue Streams- Healthcare practitioners who use medical devices that integrate into physician workflow and can collect large amounts of data to enhance patient health can likely profit more from the RPM system.