Technology today offers unlimited opportunities to improve health care services. One of those opportunities is remote patient monitoring (RPM), a type of telehealth that uses digital technology to monitor a patient's health away from a health care setting.
With RPM, a health care professional in one location can see data collected in real time from a patient in a different location.
It's no surprise remote monitoring programs increased in value when COVID-19 increased the risk of in-person office visits.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded Medicare coverage for RPM and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a policy allowing approved non-invasive devices to monitor vital signs used in remote settings.