Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring during Pregnancy

 

Patients with gestational hypertension or diabetes can benefit greatly from remote patient monitoring (RPM). RPM makes it easy to gather physiological data without requiring office visits for both of these conditions. We'll discuss three key benefits of RPM for situations that arise during pregnancy in addition to building a stronger patient-healthcare professional (HCP) relationship. There are many benefits of remote patient monitoring, but it is most significant for pregnant women and chronically ill patients. Let's figure out some of its benefits. 

Key Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring 

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• RPM can be Used at Home by Patients 

Monitoring gestational hypertension and diabetes frequently might be complicated for patients to fit into their schedule, requiring time away from work or significant travel to reach their OB-GYN. Patients can better monitor their health with RPM, as they control their schedule. Monitoring blood pressure at home may provide a complete picture of a patient's health since some patients find clinical settings stressful.  

 

Now is a necessary time to help lower the COVID-19 exposure risk for both patients and healthcare providers. According to studies, pregnant women with symptomatic COVID-19 are more likely to require hospitalization, admission to the intensive care unit, ventilation, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation than women who are not pregnant.  

 

Pregnant women are therefore advised to take special precautions to limit exposure. By allowing pregnant women to track their health through RPM, fewer office visits are necessary, which limits outside contact.  

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• The RPM increases the amount of Data Available to make a Treatment Plan 

Patients can take their blood pressure or blood glucose readings more frequently at home than they could if they had to go to the doctor in person. To find correlations with certain foods, exercise, or other variables, they can track their condition at particular times or even multiple times per day. In addition to receiving patient data regularly, OB/GYNs can follow up with patients via telehealth services to adjust treatment plans. 

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• OB-GYNs Receive Electronically Transmitted RPM Data 

In the absence of RPM, patients may take readings at home and record their results by hand to show their OB-GYN at a future appointment. Thus, diagnostic data is only available to the HCP at irregular intervals, and there is a possibility of data needing to be adequately recorded or a piece of paper getting lost.  

 

In contrast, remote patient monitoring (RPM) allows patients to share recorded data with their healthcare provider at each appointment, giving the healthcare provider immediate access to patient information and the ability to reach out to the patient if there are concerns. 

 

Bluetooth-enabled RPM devices synchronize their readings with an RPM platform like RPM365, and the data appears on the OB-GYN's dashboard or integrated electronic health record. The RPM platform automatically shares each reading with the HCP via cellular RPM devices, eliminating the need for syncing. 

Conclusion: 

OB-GYNs can gather critical physiological data on their patients using RPM for gestational hypertension and diabetes. As a component of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, RPM is a valuable tool even when office visits are more accessible than they are today. By allowing pregnant patients to track their condition from home, they gain more flexibility. Having their data synced with an RPM platform eliminates possible sources of error and facilitates accessible communication between them and their doctors.