Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. And now healthcare providers are exploring and expanding new use cases and applications for a wide array of technologies that can enable patients to receive care outside of the proverbial four walls.

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.