Too Many Dashboards, Not Enough Insight: How Companies Can Build Remote Patient Monitoring Tech

To build remote patient monitoring technology for ready adoption, repetitive data streams must be avoided. To be successful in clinical adoption, we offer technology companies the following three recommendations. With the rise of digital health technology, the ability to track a host of health indicators has been incorporated into wearables and medical-grade devices. The odds are great that many readers of this article have used this information in a recent doctor’s visit. This is called remote patient monitoring (RPM) which CMS defines as the “use of digital technologies to collect health data from patients in one location and electronically transmit that information securely to providers in a different location.” Many RPM companies are operating under the assumption that for their signal to be used, they need to build their own user-friendly dashboard for accessing that information. Despite the dollars in creation and marketing dedicated to the visualization of data, RPM adoption remains limited largely because of the underemphasis on shared infrastructure.