Today’s Challenge: Health systems and physician groups have long understood the benefit of monitoring patients remotely. Remote Patient Monitoring solutions give physicians the ability to understand the patient’s experiences and wellness beyond just the time frame of individual appointments, and greatly aid in improving outcomes for patients with chronic illness.
The volume of data produced by RPM needs to be managed effectively, and that means integrating the RPM data received from in-home monitoring devices and platforms with the patient’s overall history, and subsequently, the provider’s EHR/EMR system.
In late 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance that the temporary allowances for telehealth, RPM, and more that had been introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic were becoming permanent. Many health systems brought in RPM solutions during the temporary window in a rushed or haphazard way in order to serve the patients who had unexpectedly all become remote.
Now, with these CMS decisions and RPM here to stay on the Medicare physician fee schedule, RPM solutions need a way to ensure their customers/users have the data they need, where they need it – a long term integration and automation solution is the only way to ensure this is the case.
