Remote Patient Monitoring News

Benefits of RPM for Healthcare Practitioners
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one the fastest growing “health tech” collaborations, bringing numerous benefits for both patients, healthcare providers, and the overall healthcare system. The benefits of adopting remote patient monitoring for healthcare providers include:

Take Control of Your Health with RPM
Monitoring empowers patients to take control of their health by learning how to monitor and assess their vital signs and then manage existing chronic conditions. RPM also gives patients extra accountability and motivation in living a healthy lifestyle. Essentially it encourages self-care, which will be at the heart of this post. If you want to know more about self-care and remote patient monitoring, read on!

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) may play a Key Role in Hypertension Awareness and Treatment in Women
“Many women take on the role of main caregiver in their family—often with a natural tendency to place everyone else’s health ahead of their own. Add a full-time job to the equation and you have a perfect set up for chronic stress and seemingly little time to take care of themselves.

76-year-old distance runner Stan Cottrell, announces historic run at NRB 2020
Meet Stan at NRB Booth 303, running the treadmill and networking to place the 3,000-mile Run and charities in front of thousands of media decision-makers and where his vital signs, such as heart rate, will be livestreamed over the Internet to demonstrate how Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) works.

Heart Health and Blood Pressure: How Are They Related?
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, as it is more commonly known, is often referred to as the “silent killer”. In most cases, hypertension doesn’t present with any specific symptoms and can go unnoticed for years, until it is often too late. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 75 million Americans (32% of the population) suffer from hypertension.

When is a healthy BMI not good enough?
For decades, Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the oft-spoken about predictor of health within the medical community in both the positive and negative camps. Whilst it remains a guideline to a healthy weight based on the height of a person, BMI falls short in certain crucial parameters, such as its ability to distinguish between muscle and fat, as well as where the fat is located.