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Remote Patient Monitoring

Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 12:49 pm | July 15, 2024
Erie County Medical Center Corporation's RPM initiative has been successful in "improving health outcomes and reducing the risks associated with hypertension," says its VP of population health.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 02:03 pm | June 24, 2024
The sophisticated program employing patient monitoring, patient tracking and reporting technologies also has enhanced patient follow-up and engagement and yielded a big win on overall healthcare delivery.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 01:53 pm | June 14, 2024
The panel likely needs more data and a decision on what constitutes a good form of engagement in order to make an informed decision on the proposed changes to the CPT code language for RPM reimbursement, one expert says.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 10:53 am | June 03, 2024
A risk management expert offers perspective on shoring up data security, preventing misdiagnosis and avoiding overreliance on RPM.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 12:55 pm | April 23, 2024
Only 0.6% of remote encounters managed by the health system's remote patient monitoring vendor's caregivers escalate to Providence clinicians. Hypertension RPM patients saw a 12.55% reduction in systolic blood pressure by week 12.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 12:18 pm | April 22, 2024
If the CPT Editorial Panel approves new changes and Medicare and private payers follow suit, providers that expand their remote patient monitoring programs to fit the new codes will gain the most benefits for their patients and clinics.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 12:43 pm | March 25, 2024
Karin Schifter-Maor discusses how remote patient monitoring can bring the Acute Hospital Care at Home program to more people, make the program affordable and use centralized patient data to improve health outcomes.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 02:16 pm | March 20, 2024
Clinical outcomes have shown 82% of patients experienced lowered blood pressure via remote patient monitoring at the health system, with severely hypertensive patients seeing a significant decrease after 90 days on the program.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 01:31 pm | February 19, 2024
Cindy Gaines, RN, chief clinical transformation officer at Lumeon, explains why making the home another part of the care continuum is so crucial – and discusses the technologies that can make it happen.
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 12:23 pm | February 06, 2024
The health system's medical director will offer more perspective on how remote patient monitoring is helping, including enabling an adherence rate of 80% to daily vitals, at HIMSS24.