How RPM Can Solve Many Patient And Provider Problems In Rural Areas

Due to a lack of healthcare personnel and facilities, particularly as the nurse shortage persists nationwide, rural towns across the U.S. are experiencing a growing healthcare crisis. Through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring alternatives, people in these rural places can still have easy access to high-quality healthcare in a cost-effective manner.

Telemedicine in these regions enables healthcare professionals to pinpoint specific social determinants of health, such as limited access to food, and gives chronic patients, for instance, access to medical specialists without having to travel a great distance. We spoke with Kimberly O'Loughlin, CEO of Health Recovery Solutions, a remote patient monitoring business, about the situation of RPM in rural America, the trends driving RPM, and more.