Telemedicine and e-Health: Telehealth Services and Social Determinants of Health Outcomes in Health Care Delivery

Telemedicine and e-Health: Telehealth Services and Social Determinants of Health Outcomes in Health Care Delivery A study from the Mayo Clinic showed that patients who received remote monitoring support after discharge did significantly better and needed less follow-up care compared to patients without remote monitoring. The study also found that when patients used online [...]

2025-06-11T14:58:44-04:00May 27th, 2025|

NEJM Catalyst: Telehealth Isn’t Waiting

NEJM Catalyst: Telehealth Isn’t Waiting This issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery includes articles, case studies, and research reports on mpox teleconsulations, telehepatology, cancer telemedicine and remote care, the future of digital care, hospital readmissions, goals-of-care conversations, generic drugs, and health care jobs. Inpatient Telehepatology at Community Hospitals: Expanding Access and Comanaging [...]

2025-06-11T15:13:48-04:00May 21st, 2025|

JAMA Network: Remote Symptom Monitoring With Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Cancer Populations

JAMA Network: Remote Symptom Monitoring With Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Cancer Populations In this nonrandomized controlled trial, hospitalizations were 19% and 13% lower among patients receiving RSM at 3 and 6 months, respectively. This nonrandomized controlled trial found that RSM implementation was associated with reduced risk of hospitalizations for patients with cancer, supporting [...]

2025-05-26T14:57:54-04:00May 13th, 2025|

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

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 [...]

2025-05-26T15:03:52-04:00May 6th, 2025|

Peterson Center on Healthcare: Evolving Remote Monitoring: An Evidence-Based Approach to Coverage and Payment

Peterson Center on Healthcare: Evolving Remote Monitoring: An Evidence-Based Approach to Coverage and Payment The report synthesizes previous PHTI evaluations and provides policy recommendations.  Despite some coverage focusing on specific aspects of the report, it has both recommendations for guardrails as well as recommendations to enhance reimbursement in some situations. [...]

2025-05-26T14:32:01-04:00April 16th, 2025|

Telemedicine and e-Health: Impact of a Large-Scale Remote Patient Monitoring Program on Hospitalization Reduction

Telemedicine and e-Health: Impact of a Large-Scale Remote Patient Monitoring Program on Hospitalization Reduction Patient Monitoring at Home is a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program through Michigan Medicine, which provides symptoms and vital sign monitoring via a provided cellular tablet and Bluetooth-connected devices. A team of registered nurses monitors patients 7 days per week. [...]

2025-05-25T15:18:44-04:00March 24th, 2025|

NEJM Catalyst: Closing Hypertension Equity Gaps Through Digitally Inclusive Remote Patient Monitoring

NEJM Catalyst: Closing Hypertension Equity Gaps Through Digitally Inclusive Remote Patient Monitoring Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been shown to support adults with treated but uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) outside the clinic setting, yielding significant benefits in the treatment and control of blood pressure (BP). Despite its proven efficacy and recommendation as guideline-concordant care, adoption [...]

2025-05-25T14:36:29-04:00February 19th, 2025|

Frontiers in Endocrinology: Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Diabetes

Frontiers in Endocrinology: Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Diabetes The prevalence of diabetes continues to rise in the United States along with a shortage of endocrinologists. One proposed solution to this challenge is to deliver more specialty health care services through remote patient monitoring (RPM). In an RPM program for diabetes care at the [...]

2025-05-05T16:14:32-04:00January 22nd, 2025|

Ohio State University: Most Patients Use Devices to Self-Monitor Their Heart Health

Ohio State University: Most Patients Use Devices to Self-Monitor Their Heart Health Advances in technology have made it increasingly easier for people to self-monitor their heart health whether it’s via a smart device on their wrist or finger or a blood pressure monitor. However, a national survey commissioned by the Ohio State University Wexner [...]

2025-05-05T16:12:47-04:00January 22nd, 2025|

Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC): Maximizing the Value of Remote Patient Monitoring

Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC): Maximizing the Value of Remote Patient Monitoring The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released a health explainer, which offered evidence-based strategies to maximize the value of remote patient monitoring, a digital service that transmits patients’ at-home data to health care providers. The explainer recommends policymakers to focus on four key areas: [...]

2025-05-05T15:31:05-04:00January 9th, 2025|
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