Top 3 Benefits RPM Offers Healthcare Practices

INTRODUCTION: Remote Patient Monitoring in Healthcare

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Over the past decade telehealth technology, including Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), has gained traction as a reliable means for home health agencies, hospital systems and healthcare practices to increase the effectiveness of patient care – at home, or away from a clinical setting – by regularly monitoring vital signs and providing timely clinical intervention, when such help is required.

Longitudinal studies have further supported RPM as a viable solution to the problem of unplanned, costly, and resource-depleting hospital readmissions, especially for patients in need of chronic disease management.

As part of post-acute care, RPM systems can keep readmission rates low in the first 30 to 90 days following discharge. With congestive heart failure patients, for example, use of Remote Patient Monitoring has demonstrated a 50 percent reduction in readmission rates.*

In offering the following information, Clear Arch Health (a provider of advanced solutions in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Remote Life Safety (RLS) and mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS) that are designed to help keep chronic care patients healthier, at home, and out of the hospital longer) hopes to clarify the benefits healthcare practices may obtain by implementing RPM and associated Remote Life Safety programs into their overall patient treatment regimens.

?To learn more, please visit Clear Arch Health.

?Primary Drivers for Remote Patient Monitoring

Periodic checkups are vital for patients who live with chronic disease and/or those who are transitioning from hospital to home-based care. But, with many patients expressing concerns about office visits and contracting COVID-19, or other transmissible diseases if they were to visit their doctor’s office, in-person checkups have become problematic.

As an economical, safe, effective, and data-driven healthcare delivery method, predicated on using technology to elevate the quality of care for chronic care patient populations, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is one solution that lets physicians obtain patient data, monitor patients and track their health status -- all without added risk.

Patient monitoring technology allows care givers, hospitals, healthcare practices, and related health service providers to remain connected and informed about the health of their loved ones, patients, group members and clients.

Three Advantages of Remote Patient Monitoring for Healthcare Practices and Health Systems

The advantages of remote monitoring of patients are plentiful. This article will focus on the following three (3) compelling reasons to add RPM solutions into a healthcare practice now.

1.?Consistent access to actionable patient data and health status information

2.?Reduction in costly hospital readmissions through proactive, preventive care

3.?Increased patient satisfaction leading to improved compliance with treatment

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1.?Convenient Access to Meaningful Patient Health Data

Remote Patient Monitoring requires patients to take biometric readings, answer questions, and enter their health data according to a consistent schedule. In this manner, patients with CHF, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic conditions receive consistent health monitoring from home. Healthcare teams assess a patient’s status and reinforce care plans as warranted. By keeping clinical teams and physicians informed about a patient’s health status with RPM, proactive measures can be taken to help ensure the appropriate level of care is provided when patients need it.

?????????????When integrated with electronic health records (EHR), RPM helps care providers to access, assess and evaluate a patient’s physiologic status over time. RPM enables the delivery of accurate, accumulated data for insightful and improved patient care.

2.?Preventive Care to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Patients living with advanced chronic conditions, and/or undergoing surgical procedures, may require repeated interventions and long-term hospital stays. During transition to home-based care or post-operative recovery, shifting treatment to preventive care via patient monitoring can make it possible to reduce the severity of recurrences.

RPM allows healthcare providers to use the power of technology to monitor their most at-risk patients and identify health concerns before a patient may need to go to the emergency room or be readmitted into the hospital, which can incur unnecessary and added costs.

??????RPM allows health providers to focus on patient management between medical office visits, freeing patients to live their normal lives and to become more self-motivated to adapt healthier behaviors, which is a key part of preventive care.

3.?Enhanced Patient-Centric Care and Patient Satisfaction

“If we give patients the tools they need to engage fully in their own healthcare, we will be able to enact real change in the lives of people who want to engage more dynamically in their own health and healthcare.” ~~ Rob Flippo, CEO, MobileHelp/Clear Arch Health

The COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges and opportunities to the healthcare industry. When faced with the need to receive health services from a safe distance, without risk of exposure to a novel coronavirus, many healthcare consumers experienced the benefits of telehealth for the first time. Patient engagement was heightened as they embraced the convenience and utility of Remote Patient Monitoring.

Patients developed confidence in using the technology.** The collection of patient data that advised clinical decision-making helped to encourage greater compliance with doctor’s orders as patients favorably responded to the personalized guidance and care they received.

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CONCLUSION: Remote Patient Monitoring Delivers Value

Remote Patient Monitoring represents one of the most promising technology solutions in the healthcare space today for reducing hospital readmissions, engaging patient populations and addressing long-term/post-acute chronic healthcare situations.

• With convenient access to individualized health information, patients develop a deeper understanding of, and involvement in, the way their behaviors impact their health.
• RPM fosters self-reliance in patients, enabling clinicians to focus more on the patients who need care the most. This makes healthcare practices more efficient, more effective, more responsive and, in the long run, more profitable.
• RPM contributes to optimizing healthcare expenditures, resources, manpower, and communications. Healthcare organizations, and the patient populations they serve, achieve improved outcomes through the delivery of quality care.

Isn’t it time your healthcare practice implemented Remote Patient Monitoring into treatment plans for the benefit of your high-risk, chronic care patients?

If you are a healthcare provider and are thinking about adding a Remote Patient Monitoring program to your healthcare practice, care agency or health system (or, if you need more information to begin a conversation), please visit www.cleararchhealth.com

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About Clear Arch Health:

Clear Arch Health? is a remote patient monitoring and digital healthcare solutions provider. A division of MobileHelp? (a leader in mobile Personal Emergency Response System [mPERS] and healthcare technology solutions), Clear Arch Health offers healthcare organizations a full range of telehealth product and service options (including advanced Remote Patient Monitoring [RPM] and Remote Life Safety [RLS] technologies) to facilitate proactive patient care for better patient outcomes through enhanced oversight and a reduction in hospital readmissions. Care providers benefit by achieving effective patient management that improves workflow efficiency, adds to the quality of healthcare, contains cost and satisfies evolving needs.

If you are a healthcare provider and are thinking about adding a Remote Patient Monitoring program to your healthcare practice, care agency or health system (or, if you need more information to begin a conversation), please visit www.cleararchhealth.com

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?*A?Geisinger Health Plan study?has found the use of remote monitoring of patients with congestive heart failure ultimately leads to as much as a 44 percent reduction in readmissions.

**In a study conducted by MobileHelp, users reported 47 percent increase in patient confidence levels regarding their ability to manage their own condition when they were able to monitor their own vital signs in the long-term.