Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring on Chronic Care Management

In the wake of improved technological advancements, the medical field has also had a share of the big pie. The field is also enjoying the fruits of technological advancements through the use of remote patient monitoring, which has been a significant move in improving patient recovery outcomes while also providing income for care providers. The following are some of the top benefits of this remote patient monitoring model.

Essentially, remotely monitoring patients is a practice that helps medical practices and healthcareorganizations to monitor and manage the physiological health status trendsand care plans effectively. All chronic care management patients have daily and monthly physiological data like blood glucose, blood pressure, heart rate, body mass index and more that needs to be closely monitored to prevent the chronic conditions from progressing.

Collection of Patient-Generated Health Data

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) offers an effective way of caring for the increasing chronic patient population. The Chronic Care Cloud® platform helps with the collection of patient-generated health data (PGHD) and helps to deliver it on a real-time basis for the physician to review daily/monthly. This is an excellent way of ensuring that healthcare providers can promptly and efficiently offer their care services, which in return helps to control costs and improve clinical outcomes.

Timely Interventions

Also, monitoring the physiological data as it trickles in and on a frequent and continuous basis allows healthcare providers and caregivers to track patient health efficiently. This ensures that timely and effective interventions are in place. Furthermore, since traveling to a health facility is a common barrier for chronic patients in both rural and urban settlements, RPM helps to improve access to vital healthcare services.

Promoting Patient Engagement

A reliable patient monitoring system helps to promote patient engagement by offering a number of readily available services. Since they are made available on multiple devices such as mobile handsets and computers, the system can help patients to access their health data and care plan easily and timely. When the system also allows for communication between different parties, it helps physicians and caregivers to send reminders and encouragement to patients remotely.

Compliance with Multiple Requirements

An efficient remote patient monitoring system is one that is compliant with multiple regulatory requirements and critical health data is shared among all the providers of the patient regardless of where they may be located including the emergency room when the patient shows up there in real time.  For example, the system has to be interoperable and accessible to primary care, cardiologist, pharmacist, community resource provider, insurance provider, ER doctor, Urologist, GYN, pulmonologist, whoever else that is the care provider of the patient. It should also allow for effective data collection and for it to be transmitted to a central point where the care team can analyze it.