Remote patient monitoring lets providers manage acute and chronic conditions and provides the ability to monitor certain aspects of a patient's health from their own home has become an increasingly popular TeleHealth option, and has been embraced by both medical service providers and the payers.

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a type of TeleHealth in which healthcare providers monitor patients outside the traditional care setting using digital medical devices, such as weight scales, blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, and blood glucose meters. The data collected from these devices are then electronically transferred to providers for care management. Automated feedback and workflows can be built into data collection, and out-of-range values or concerning readings can be flagged.

Telemedicine and remote monitoring represent far more than more communication of health data via a remote connection. In the past, through often bulky and expensive devices, simple observations of patients clinical variables were recorded and subsequently sent to the specialist physician’s office. A necessary subsequent step was the collection and storage of these data in a cloud system which the physician, at any subsequent point in time, could consult remotely possibility modifying treatment recommendations based on the results.

In order to achieve this new focus, a new generation of less expensive devices that can be used in different settings with a scalable approach has been conceived. These devices give the possibility to monitor different biological and haemodynamic parameters and, above all, interact with Electronic Personal Health Records already in place. Along with devices that collect and elaborate data, a new generation of plug and play sensors has also come to life. Self-configuration and self-calibration in sensors now make them able to create autonomously an interconnected constellation of signal processors that are managed by a self-learning algorithm. The standardization of platforms and their interaction with different systems lower the management costs and facilitate end-users educational needs for interacting with the new system elements, as well as reducing the system-specific training needs of technicians and specialists, who still have not been adequately educated in the use of remote monitoring systems to date.