If you have a chronic health condition, chances are you know that management includes education, monitoring and treating your symptoms, and, when necessary, controlling (minimizing) your exposure to different triggers. For many conditions, management is possible on an outpatient basis through continuous monitoring and routine measuring.
Advances in healthcare technology mean doctors can treat patients in new ways, one way being through remote patient monitoring (RPM). RPM leverages the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart technologies to connect you with your care team and enables you and your doctor to monitor your health outside of the office. RPM has many benefits on healthcare⎯these are four:
RPM Improves Your Care
RPM uses existing technology that connects tools and devices with the internet and each other to collect, store, and share electronic information. RPM tools and devices connect your doctor to your digital health records, making it easier for them to track your health outside the office and adjust your management plan as needed. RPM makes it easier to stay on top of your care by monitoring your health anywhere and securely connecting you with your care team. RPM technologies in healthcare reduce the financial burden associated with chronic conditions by decreasing unnecessary trips to the doctor’s, clinic, or emergency department for management or routine monitoring.
RPM Helps with Early Detection and Identification
RPM enhances your engagement in your healthcare journey. However, to work, there needs to be regular patient use of these technologies. Regular and frequent monitoring helps you detect subtle changes in your health and keeps you proactive; you and your doctor can address the change before it becomes an issue.
RPM Decreases Exacerbations and Hospitalizations
Many symptom exacerbations are associated with hospitalizations. But symptoms and symptom exacerbations are manageable on an outpatient basis. RPM technologies detect subtle changes in your health and can detect changes in your health and alert (through a notification or email) your doctor about this change. RPM is associated with fewer hospitalizations and deaths caused by symptom exacerbations.
RPM Improves Your Quality of Life
The final benefit of implementing RPM technology is that it improves your health-related quality of life. Several technologies offer features that allow you and your doctor to be proactive and practice preventative medicine. For instance, printouts are an easy way to share your saved health data over a specified period of time. Others alert medical professionals when their symptoms change or worsen. As a result of these features, your doctor can be more proactive about your care; you experience fewer symptom exacerbations, activity limitations, and trips to the emergency room, which saves you money along the way.
PRM has tremendous advantages in healthcare. Its technologies, including tools and devices, are proven to assist with early detection, real-time data collection and sharing, and improving health outcomes. However, despite its many advantages, RPM is underutilized in healthcare. Continued advances in technology and growing disease trends ensure that, in the future, more healthcare systems will need to work with more tech companies to produce tools to meet the demands and needs of different patient populations. Huddy Health offers innovative RPM tools that are easy to use, connect with other digital tools and devices, and allow you and your doctor to keep track of your health outside of your visit. To learn more, visit: https://www.huddyhealth.com