Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a way to monitor someone’s health through technology. Without the need to be in a traditional clinical environment, certain information about the patient’s health status is electronically sent to their doctor, who can monitor this data remotely.
Such technologies began to be developed in the 1960s. The first manned space missions required that it be possible to send data on astronauts’ blood pressure and breathing back to Earth.
Today it is no longer necessary to be in orbit to have access to these remote monitoring systems. Let’s take a look at some of them to understand how technology is changing the lives of both patients and doctors.
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