One RPM Expert's Take on Why the Tech is Needed Alongside Telehealth

The CEO of remote patient monitoring company Vivify Health talks how RPM, virtual care and analytics can improve outcomes and better move providers toward value-based care. As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. But only a subset of that group of providers implemented remote patient monitoring. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs. And RPM provides visibility outside of the actual patient encounter.

Eric Rock is CEO of remote patient monitoring company Vivify Health. He sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss how telehealth and RPM can work together, the role analytics plays with RPM and the future of RPM. Early on in the pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended telehealth waivers that helped bring virtual care services into the mainstream. Unfortunately, when the pandemic subsides, it's likely those waivers will go away.