The Real Return-on-Investment of Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) in Chronic Disease Management.
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Such chronic illnesses as diabetes, COPD, and hypertension continue to be some of the most expensive and complicated conditions to treat. Payers and providers are continuously on the hunt to better their results and reduce costs, and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) has rapidly become one of the most important solutions. RTM closes the divide between real-life health and office visits by allowing clinicians to monitor the adherence of the therapy, the progress of patients, and their functional status. But more importantly than its clinical usefulness, RTM also provides important financial returns when applied using the appropriate tools—better patient engagement leads to enhanced reimbursement. The RTM can improve chronic care management in the following ways. RTM is the natural progression of chronic care management , which gives the providers insight into how patients react to therapy in their natural settings. This is not just recording vitals—RTM records the data about the inte...