National Patterns of Remote Patient Monitoring Service Availability at US Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital remote patient monitoring (RPM) enables longitudinal care outside traditional healthcare settings, especially in the vulnerable period after hospitalizations, with broad coverage of the service by payers. We sought to evaluate patterns of RPM service availability at US hospitals and the characteristics of hospitals and the communities they serve that are associated with the availability of these services.

Methods

We used contemporary national data from the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey to ascertain US hospitals offering RPM services for post-discharge or chronic care. We linked hospitals with their census-based county-level data to define the characteristics of the communities they serve and examined the association of these characteris

SUBMITTER: Pedroso AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11527086 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature