Remote Patient Monitoring, or RPM, gained prominence in the healthcare industry due to the corona virus. When direct healthcare was almost impossible, people resorted to RPM.
RPM will also be a top trend in 2023 if we go by the recent trends. The need for convenience and remote treatment is still present, and post-pandemic RPM usage will only rise.
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Here is a look at the statistics,
By 2025, there will be an increase of 56.5% from 2022 of 70.6 million RPM users in the U.S.
Further, in three years, more than a quarter of Americans will routinely use a gadget that remotely monitors or gathers their health or medical information for their doctors to evaluate.
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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology is one of the techniques U.S. hospitals and health systems use to enhance results and cut costs.
RPM services don’t require interactive audio-video and virtual visits. They only need tools for physiologic data collection and analysis.
Hospital readmission costs are already being reduced by providers deploying RPM-enabled home health monitoring systems and other telehealth delivery techniques.
According to a KLAS Research study of 25 healthcare companies, 38% of those with RPM programs for chronic care management reported fewer admissions.