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Enhancing Chronic Cardiac Care through RPM Programs
Chronic disease management is complex and costly, especially in America, where barriers to healthcare access are widespread and trenchant. The virtual care boom of the last four years has propelled the use of technology to support promising new approaches to managing chronic conditions. Among these, remote patient monitoring stands out as an especially effective approach, allowing clinical care teams to keep a close eye on chronic disease patients between clinic visits and make adjustments to treatment plans in real time.RPM utilization has soared in the last five years, with one report showing that RPM claim volume increased by 1,294% from January 2019 to November 2022. The report released by data analytics company Definitive Healthcare also shows that RPM was most used in the care of chronic cardiac conditions.
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The RPM programs at Intermountain and Kettering start with the same step: patient identification and enrollment.At Intermountain Health, primary care, cardiology and hospitalist providers refer patients to the program. Graham noted that these providers have clear insights into the heart failure patients in their clinics and are, therefore, best equipped to decide which patients would benefit from RPM.
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