How RPM Works
Getting Started with RPM
Common Conditions Monitored with RPM
- Hypertension: The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that all people with hypertension take their blood pressure every day. For patients with hypertension, RPM helps your practice replace outdated paper logs with daily digital readings. Your team can spot concerning trends early and engage patients with targeted coaching.
- Heart Failure: For patients with heart failure, your team can use RPM to track weight and blood pressure, both of which may reveal signs of fluid retention before a serious exacerbation occurs.
- COPD and Lung Diseases: A pulse oximeter can be used to measure blood oxygen levels and detect early exacerbations of COPD and lung disease.
- Diabetes: RPM with a connected glucometer provides a complete feedback loop for diabetes patients to work with a health coach and understand the impact of their daily activities on their A1C level. A weight scale can also be used to help patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes lose weight and reduce risk of more severe diabetes outcomes.
- Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Connected blood pressure monitors and glucometers are frequently used for CKD patients that also have hypertension and/or diabetes. In addition, a weight scale can be used to detect fluid retention, an early sign of worsening kidney failure.
Benefits of RPM
Insights from the Field: Jared Nelson
- Extend care beyond the clinic without hiring additional staff
- Free up clinical teams to spend more time face to face with patients, with confidence that they’ll be alerted to any issues at home
- Strengthen their Chronic Care Management (CCM) program—care managers can easily track vitals from connected devices, helping them triage patients who need attention
- “Can our current team handle the day-to-day monitoring? What does that actually involve?”
- “How do we get patients started without burdening our staff, or giving up full control to a third party?”
- “What about the devices? That sounds like a logistical headache.”