Accountability & Partnership: What is Remote Patient Monitoring?
- Valerie Sutherland, MD
- Nov 28, 2020
- 2 min read
I am so pleased that insurance companies have gotten this one right: many of them are now covering something called “Remote Patient Monitoring.” I have long lamented the fact that our health care model was based mostly on discrete episodes of care while most of a person’s health is determined during the 525,500 minutes a year that they are not in their doctor's office. This conundrum is frequently highlighted in much of health research: how do I, as a physician, actually partner with a person to make meaningful change with such artificial and limited interactions? The answer may be remote patient monitoring (RPM).
