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'Deviceless' RPM could be a potent telehealth expansion
Some telehealth and remote patient monitoring experts believe that in order to scale chronic care and value-based care opportunities, healthcare provider organizations need to meet patients where they are in terms of technology – with phones and texting. They refer to this as "deviceless" remote patient monitoring.
With messages written at or below a sixth-grade reading level to enhance accessibility and reach, deviceless RPM can support multiple condition-specific monitoring programs – for example, CHF, COPD, diabetes and depression – using self-reported data to flag high-risk trends, said Evan Huang, CTO of the CareSignal division of Lightbeam Health Solutions, a health IT vendor whose products include RPM and data management.
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For U.S. providers and payers, deviceless RPM could lower costs, reduce operational burden (less device shipping/troubleshooting), and still catch early warning signs via patient-reported symptoms — potentially improving outcomes while scaling care to larger patient populations.
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