American Journal of Managed Care: Effect of Remote Patient Monitoring on Stage 2 Hypertension

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is increasingly being utilized in clinical practice to reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension. RPM depends on home readings by patients electronically transmitted to clinicians and includes automated alerts for excessive abnormal readings. A cohort of community-dwelling Medicare patients in a large outpatient primary care practice was enrolled in an RPM program if they were diagnosed with hypertension. Patients were followed for 1 year. Deployment of an RPM program in Medicare patients with concomitant care coaching was associated with statistically significant reductions in both BP readings and the presence of stage 2 hypertension.