American Medical Association: AMA Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm For Telehealth A survey by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that 85 percent of physicians now use telehealth and 70 percent plan to continue using virtual services after the pandemic. However, only eight percent of physicians currently use remote patient monitoring. The survey also found that more than [...]
Frontiers in Endocrinology: Effectiveness of Remotely Delivered Interventions to Simultaneously Optimize Management of Hypertension, Hyperglycemia and Dyslipidemia in People With Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Background: Remotely delivered interventions may be more efficient in controlling multiple risk factors in people with diabetes. Purpose: To pool evidence from randomized controlled trials testing remote [...]
Optimizing Foundational Therapies in Patients With HFrEF: How Do We Translate These Findings Into Clinical Care? Given the high risk of adverse outcomes in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), there is an urgent need for the initiation and titration of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) that can reduce the risk of morbidity [...]
JAMA Network: Remote Patient Monitoring During COVID-19 COVID-19 has advanced patient safety in an unexpected way. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, patient monitoring for harm and many approaches to prevent harm were linked to where the patient was treated in the hospital. A report based on data prior to the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that routinely monitoring [...]
How remote patient monitoring (RPM) can increase access to care As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through the world, healthcare providers and patients are struggling to reconcile the need for continuity in care with the risks posed by the coronavirus. The crisis has also shed light on existing issues with access to care faced by patients [...]
mHealth Intelligence: Remote Monitoring, Telehealth Use Linked to Tighter Blood Pressure Control According to a recent study, telehealth services, combined with remote patient monitoring, helped boost engagement and blood pressure control among stroke survivors living in under-resourced communities. The group that received care through the Telehealth After Stroke Care strategy had higher patient engagement rates, with [...]
From facility to home: How healthcare could shift by 2025
Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring With Remote Hypertension Management in a Rural and Low-Income Population The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association blood pressure (BP) guideline provides a Class IA recommendation for the use of home BP monitoring, team-based care, and telehealth strategies to improve BP control among patients with hypertension.1 However, most studies have been [...]
mHealth Intelligence: Mayo Clinic RPM Model Improves Outcomes for Acute COVID-19 Treatment According to a study by Mayo Clinic, remote patient monitoring programs are safe, feasible, and yield positive health outcomes for acute COVID-19 treatment. The health system expanded its multi-state RPM program during the pandemic to treat patients with the virus at home, adapting an original RPM [...]
High-frequency temperature monitoring for early detection of febrile adverse events in patients with cancer