Follow-up after discharge is vital to a person’s post-surgery recovery. Remote Patient Monitoring is a viable option for providing optimum post-surgery care to patients. A study in the British Medical Association Journal reported that patients who were using RPM were recovering faster and better. Research also suggests that patients’ recovery and rehabilitation might be helped when they’re comfortable in a home environment rather than the hospital.
Post-surgery monitoring helps in identifying and notifying providers of the early signs of postoperative complications. This enables quick intervention before a patient’s condition deteriorates which also reduces readmissions and ED visits. For example, BuddyCare is an RPM platform that provides materials such as rehabilitation instructions to patients. It also collects patient data like symptoms, pain scores, or wound photos, based on which, care teams receive a simple and easy-to-view summary that can then be analyzed. This helps in reducing the workload of care teams by decreasing unnecessary postoperative visits to the hospital.