Remote patient monitoring solutions: a 360° overview
Americans favor remote patient monitoring
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of practices use RPM technologies
American College of Physicians
the value of the remote patient monitoring market in 2022
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Main features of remote patient monitoring software
The major purpose of RPM software is to collect data on patients’ vital metrics and deliver it to medical professionals. However, modern patient monitoring platforms enable a much more robust functionality.
Patient health tracking
- Collect patients’ vitals from all kinds of tracking devices
- Register symptoms, vitals, and lifestyle
- Track medication intake
- Record mental health parameters
Data analytics and reporting
- Compare patients’ vitals against reference parameters
- Identify trends in symptom changes
- Chart history of patients’ vitals
- Generate comprehensive reports
Communication with patients
- Interview patients and log symptoms using chatbots
- Alert designated people of any abnormalities
- Supply patients with condition management recommendations
- Answer common non-urgent questions
Accessibility enablement
- Make devices controllable by voice
- Add text-to-speech functionality
- Let users switch to a larger font
- Provide a high-contrast app design option
Patient data security
- Encrypt all data passing through RPM devices
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA and other regulations
- Assign different access profiles for various groups of users
- Enable multi-factor user authentication
Device safety proofing
- Let designated personnel manage RPM parameters
- Identify signs of a device not functioning properly
- Alert users about possible device failure
- Block all device operations in case of a malfunction
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Remote patient monitoring solution architecture
RPM solutions have a complex architecture. However, it consists of the main structural blocks that support three groups of users: patients, healthcare organizations, and admins.
Interface for patients
Admin panel
Interface for medical personnel
mHealth and lifestyle apps
Smart devices
Medical RPM devices
ERH
Other integrations (healthcare analytic solutions, hospital management systems, etc.)
3d party platforms
Cloud server for data storage and processing
Patients
Admins
Doctors and nurses
Use cases of RPM solutions
Most use cases for RPM solutions can be categorized by the care model they support, by the disease they help manage, and by the medical field they are used in.
By care model
- Population health management
- Chronic care
- Newborn care
- Senior care
- Oncological care
- Post-discharge care management
- Transitional care
- Principal care
- Hospital-at-home
- Digital therapeutics
Types of remote patient monitoring solutions
There are many kinds of RPM apps and solutions on the market. Most of them can be categorized by the type of connected device or its function and the way it works with data.
RPM devices
Blood pressure monitors
EEG devices
Maternity care monitors
Asthma management devices
Heart rate monitors
Mood tracking devices
Glucose level monitors
Smart scales
Pedometers
GI tract monitors
ECG devices
Spirometers
Pulse oximeters
Temperature sensors
RPM apps
IoMT connected devices
Exchange patients’ health information with the rest of the IoT medical devices inside the ecosystem
Application forms
Get information from questionnaires filled out by patients
Precision care apps
Prepare data for medical research and more personalized diagnostics and treatment
Telemedicine
Facilitate data exchange during doctor-patient communication
mHealth and lifestyle apps
Receive data from patient’s wearables or mobile applications
Our remote patient monitoring services
An experienced Itransition team is your reliable partner at any stage of your RPM software adoption journey.
RPM consulting
Our experts help you build a holistic care environment. We assess your existing healthcare IT ecosystem, advise on the most suitable custom RPM solutions for your organization’s needs and resources, and create an optimized plan for their implementation. Our healthcare software development specialists also help you ensure regulatory compliance and adherence to security regulations, calculate the cost of the implementation process, and offer verified additional modules for integration with your RPM solution.
RPM development
Itransition’s experienced engineers are ready to develop solutions for any type of RPM device according to your organization’s needs and integrate them with your other healthcare software and third-party applications. We employ development best practices, ensuring the solution’s security, compliance with industry regulations, and patient safety while using methodology best fitted for your case.
Migration
We handle data migration between any of your healthcare systems, built-in PRM device software, IoT gadgets, and other connected applications in a safe, secure and compliant way, mitigating the risks of data losses or contamination.
Modernization and support
Our team can upgrade, extend, or rework your legacy solutions so that they fit your healthcare needs and become more secure and reliable. We are also here for you 24/7 to solve any issues with the software and are ready to monitor, analyze, and optimize its performance.
Client spotlight: our RPM success stories
Our engineers have helped healthcare providers enhance their care services with specialized software that drives more value from RPM devices.
3 component
software suite
Asthma monitoring software
We developed asthma monitoring software that includes a web app, separate mobile apps for patients and clinicians, and a user management platform for a US startup that designs medical devices to help patients self-manage their asthma while reducing physical and emotional stress. Our team ensured the solution was developed in the shortest time frame possible, while covering all of the client's functionality requirements, as well as complying with HIPAA and applicable regional regulations on PHI processing.
3x
faster case creation
A remote patient monitoring and mobile telehealth suite
In under six months, our team has delivered a solution that enables nurses from rural areas to collect sexual assault evidence. The app is connected to a lens-equipped medical device, a colposcope, that generates high-resolution videos and photos of a patient’s examined body parts. It also streamlines case creation, making the process quicker and more comfortable for the patient while complying with data security regulations.
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Valuable RPM integrations
While RPM solutions alone greatly benefit healthcare organizations and patients, their full potential is unlocked in an integrated healthcare IT ecosystem.
Valuable RPM integrations
EHR/EMR systems
Healthcare IoT
Telehealth apps
Patient portals
Mobile health apps
Healthcare data
analytic solutions
EHR/EMR systems
Make sure that patients’ medical history is continuously updated with new information from their RPM devices so that medical personnel have a complete up-to-date view of the patients’ conditions.
Healthcare IoT
Expand your digital care services by enabling IoMT devices like drug delivery gadgets and virtual ward systems to take action automatically based on the readings from integrated RPM devices.
Telehealth apps
Equip your specialists with tools for remote health examination during their teleconsultation. With connected RPM devices, a virtual visit is just as effective in terms of diagnostic and care quality as an in-person one.
Patient portals
Boost patient engagement and empower them to understand and manage their health condition better by enabling them to review their health stats, symptom patterns, and real-time vitals via a patient portal connected to the RPM device.
Mobile health apps
Allow medical personnel and patients to have access to RPM readings, log symptoms and other vital information, and exchange such data with other systems on the go, by integrating RPM devices with mHealth applications.
Healthcare data analytic solutions
Transform data received from RPM devices into the basis for accurate diagnosis and personalized treatment plans by finding meaningful patterns in patients’ condition changes, symptoms, and vitals with the help of medical analytic solutions.
Benefits of a remote patient monitoring software
Remote patient monitoring systems have valuable advantages for patients, medical personnel, and healthcare organizations.
Healthcare organizations
- Reduce patient care expenses
- Improve medical staff efficiency
- Have fewer no-shows
- Increase total revenue
- Enhance patient engagement
- Expand patient base
- Add new healthcare service options to their offering
- Comply with major healthcare regulations
RPM implementation roadmap
Our experts make sure to suggest the best approach and methodology for your case to make the implementation as smooth and cost-effective as possible. The entire process usually involves six main steps.
1
Planning
We conduct market research and business analysis to define main goals and requirements. Our team sets up timeframes, creates a roadmap, suggests the tech stack, and assigns project roles.
2
Design
We ensure the future solution is safe and compliant with FDA, IEC, HIPAA and other standards. UI/UX designers develop wireframes and product designs. A working prototype is built, tested, and run by the decision-makers.
3
Development
Our engineers develop the solution, ensuring its reliability, security, scalability, and interoperability with other healthcare software. We ensure the solution’s effectiveness and user-friendliness.
4
Testing
While we test the solution throughout the development process, our experts still conduct a final QA before the deployment to assess the functionality, productivity, and reliability of all software components.
5
Deployment
Our team performs successful software deployment, ensuring smooth integration with all third-party apps and other healthcare systems, and complements it with personnel training for quicker adaptation.
6
Maintenance and support
We offer post-implementation support services to tackle challenges, handle software updates and upgrades, monitor the app’s performance and make improvements, or integrate new apps or modules.
Tech stack
We use a collection of modern tools and technologies which we continuously expand to cover our clients’ unique requests.
Programming languages and frameworks
Backend: ASP.NET Core C# Ruby
Frontend: Angular React
Containerization
Docker
Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
APIs
Omron API Fitbit API
Google Fit API
Cloud platforms
Azure + all varieties of their services (ex. Azure IoT)
AWS (Amazon Web Services) + all varieties of their services (ex. AWS IoT)
Databases
SQL Server Postgres MongoDB
Amazon DynamoDB Azure Cosmos DB Redis
Database-related
SSIS (Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services)
FAQ
We have compiled a list of questions most adopters of this technology have at the beginning of their journey and asked our experts to share their thoughts.
