Remote Patient Monitoring

The use of digital technologies to collect medical data from patients in one location and transmit it electronically to healthcare providers in another location for assessment and recommendations. Common RPM applications include blood pressure cuffs, continuous glucose monitors, pulse oximeters, and cardiac monitors. Oklahoma's RHTP allocates $800,000 for RPM targeting high-risk maternal health cases.

RPM is one of the fastest-growing segments of telehealth and a central focus of federal value-based care strategy. CMS has expanded RPM billing codes significantly since 2019, and the RHTP's Technology Cooperative initiative ($13.8 million) includes group purchasing contracts for RPM devices to help small rural practices afford monitoring infrastructure. RPM generates the continuous data stream that makes proactive, preventive care possible — reducing costly acute care episodes. For Ready.net, RPM represents a use case that Portals can support by providing patients with access to monitoring devices and trained staff at public-access locations, bridging the gap for patients who cannot reliably use home-based RPM devices.