Top 20 remote patient monitoring companies among Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) boasts an impressive portfolio of telehealth solutions to support remote patient monitoring and care coordination. ClinicianConnect allows providers to triage, monitor, and intervene from anywhere with diverse workflows and EHR integration. PatientConnect Core is a tablet-only platform that facilitates real-time data collection and communication between care teams, caregivers and patients, which makes it an ideal solution for elderly patients and palliative care. CaregiverConnect keeps informal caregivers in the loop while PatientConnect Mobile provides daily reminders, education, surveys and communication tools.

With a growing OB-GYN provider shortage, the traditional in-person-only model of maternity care isn’t just outdated—it’s not always possible. Babyscripts aims to efficiently expand access with the only clinically validated obstetrics-specific mobile platform that allows providers to remotely deliver risk-specific remote care with customizable content. The three-tiered solution delivers digital education to patients, integrates with remote monitoring devices to share blood pressure and weight data with providers and offers population health data insights for providers and payers. And according to Babyscripts, it’s the only remote monitoring platform that allows providers to monitor both physical and behavioral health.

A common virtual visit complaint from both patients and providers: lack of physical examination. The TytoCare platform, with its portable exam kits and full-stack telehealth solution, bridges the physical gap between patients and providers with handheld multi-use devices to help patients and caregivers conduct physical exams with their provider’s real-time guidance. The TytoCare device and attachments can be used to capture high-quality images of the ears, throat and skin; collect heart, lung and abdominal sounds; and measure heart rate, temperature, blood oxygen and blood pressure. Other solutions from TytoCare, like the TytoClinic and TytoPro, facilitate telehealth from anywhere and promote collaborative care among ACO providers.

Accuhealth’s turnkey remote patient monitoring solutions and around-the-clock clinical support have earned major accolades for its accessible devices, seamless EHR integration and high return on investment. 4G-enabled remote monitoring devices, including blood pressure cuffs, glucose monitors, pulse oximeters and scales, send data automatically to the patient’s chart and Accuhealth’s team of nurses and medical assistants. The clinical team analyzes data, connects with patients who submit abnormal readings and escalates to providers as needed. Each clinical interaction is automatically time-tracked and claims are auto-generated, so providers can get paid faster with fewer denials and easier audits.

Vivify Health’s remote patient monitoring platforms offer truly customizable solutions to help patients and their caregivers stay engaged and motivated about their care plans. The device-agnostic platform utilizes a mobile app to guide patients and caregivers along customized pathways with prompts to use remote monitoring devices, review educational materials and complete regular check-ins to aid with care plan compliance. Vivify supplies more than 90 template pathways designed to address a variety of health conditions, or providers can create their own with the drag-and-drop interface. Vivify’s Pathways +Home remote monitoring system offers engagement strategies and educational tools that can be customized for populations and individuals, meaning that even geriatric patients can use the Vivify platform with ease.

It’s not possible for physicians to call their patients every day to check in and offer advice and support, but Get Well’s Loop platform comes awfully close. Loop shepherds patients through their care journeys with automated daily check-ins and remote data collection without devices. The software flags patients who require additional support and care teams can proactively intervene before more serious complications arise, all while reducing their administrative burden and boosting revenue and reimbursements. Providers can assign digital care plans from over 250 options in Loop’s library or customize content to meet the needs of patients and practices.

There’s an awful lot to like about VitalTech’s VitalCare platform, as well as its VitalCare Patient and VitalCare Family engagement tools. The interoperable platform unifies disparate systems for better care coordination and can accommodate asynchronous virtual visits. Bluetooth Low Energy-enabled monitoring devices send data from anywhere without relying on broadband or 4G access, and patients/caregivers can access the VitalCare app from their own mobile devices or with VitalCare’s own branded tablet. The app itself offers a range of customizable patient engagement tools, including medication reminders, surveys and patient communication. Another big plus: It’s the only virtual care platform authorized to use FirstNet, a dedicated public safety broadband network.

Created by physicians to meet clinical needs, Rimidi’s cardiometabolic management platform is specifically designed to provide remote care for some of the most common—and costly—chronic illnesses. The platform isn’t designed to replace EHRs—instead, it boosts their functionality with consolidated data from connected devices and surveys, mapped against relevant clinical guidelines to support decision-making.

With Rimidi’s extra focus on comorbid disease states, social determinants of health and patient-reported outcomes, the Rimidi system is a powerful tool to manage chronic care with greater ease and efficiency. Rimidi also offers an epidemic triage and monitoring platform, which helps providers oversee patient health and safety with an EHR-integrated solution for monitoring exposures, testing and vaccine data—useful for COVID-19 and beyond.

Raziel Health’s turnkey solution combines remote patient monitoring with chronic care management in a single flexible continuous care platform. Providers can utilize condition-specific monitoring tools for single or multiple chronic conditions, including pre and post-surgery care, oncology and diabetes. The RPM Intensive and Hospital at Home solutions provide higher levels of care that address more complex medical needs in the comfort of the patient’s home.

The Raziel platform offers video visits, surveys, alerts, interventions, customizable care pathways, clinical escalations and health coaching. Patients can download the Raziel app onto their own mobile device or Raziel can ship a pre-loaded smartphone with the patient’s remote monitoring kit. Raziel’s software can also pair with FDA-approved monitoring devices and activity trackers to provide insight on physiological metrics like sleep and physical activity.

Conversa’s Automated Virtual Care and Triage platform offers a multi-specialty scalable solution with high patient satisfaction scores, improved patient engagement and reduced hospital readmissions, as well as high approval among care team members.  The Conversa system offers an impressive library of digital care plans and automates doctor-patient conversations about chronic care management, post-discharge care, pre and post-surgery care and medication adherence. When patients report concerning information, the AI-powered automated triage system identifies them and directs them to higher levels of care, including phone calls, telehealth, e-visits and in-person consults.

The chronic care management program Livongo, by Teladoc Health, offers on-demand support and one-on-one human and digital coaching to help members adopt healthier habits, adhere to care plans and better understand their own health information. The program, which members enroll in through their employers, health plans or health care providers, offers several iterations: diabetes management, a hypertension solution, weight management/diabetes prevention, mental health support and heart failure management. Smart monitoring devices pair with the Livongo app, which analyzes their health data to provide personalized support and interventions.

Current Health offers a single comprehensive platform that lets healthcare organizations design, launch and scale home-based care for any patient population, with a longitudinal view that follows each patient across the care continuum. The interface’s unified dashboard displays data from multiple sources, eliminating the need for inefficient manual data collection. And while the system is device-agnostic, Current Health offers its own proprietary FDA-cleared multi-use remote monitoring device that boasts the same accuracy as an ICU monitor. Current Health can cover all device logistics, including delivery, pickup and servicing, and their network of care partners can provide in-home services such as blood draws and medication delivery.

The healthcare data and analytics firm Health Catalyst created its configurable patient engagement platform Twistle to keep patients engaged while escalating to clinic staff only as needed. With a large library of care pathways for providers to choose from, patients receive automated messaging with the right information at the right time. Twistle can be used to engage both patients and caregivers, provide educational materials, conduct patient evaluations and eligibility assessments, complete consent forms, deliver appointment reminders and scheduling prompts, monitor adverse events and collect patient-reported data. Smart device and EHR integration along with automated workflows help providers efficiently provide quality remote care with minimal extra work.

SeamlessMD describes itself as a “digital care journey” platform, and as its name suggests, integrates smoothly with EHR systems and supports a number of common wearable devices to collect physiological data. Providers can assign digital care plans from a large library that addresses an array of health conditions across the care continuum. Accessible via mobile app or desktop web browser, SeamlessMD’s features include reminders, education and progress tracking while providers can evaluate and respond to incoming data with alerts and analytics tools. SeamlessMD is an industry standout for its high rates of patient adoption and clinical evidence to support its effectiveness in shortening hospital stays, reducing readmissions and lowering costs. And if you have a suggestion, let SeamlessMD know—they make continuous improvements based on patient, provider and partner feedback.

For superior data collection and care coordination between providers, it’s hard to beat Philips Healthcare’s remote care offerings. Providers can assign patients to condition-specific care plans that include education, data collection, surveys and video visits with their care team. Unique to the Philips platform: The BioIntelliSense BioSticker and BioButton wearable sensors, which passively track and transmit health data without requiring any direct action from patients or their parents/caregivers. And the patient reported outcomes solution provides hundreds of clinically validated survey tools for patients to submit information and analytics tools for providers to view data on patient and population levels.

PeriGen offers obstetric-specific solutions to make data manipulation easier so providers can spend more time on patient care. PeriGen’s AI-assisted data analysis tools in its PeriWatch Vigilance software help clinicians simultaneously monitor hundreds of patients at multiple sites and deliver early warnings to facilitate faster intervention. Data can be sorted and classified according to institutional parameters, with automated notifications when abnormalities are detected. Notifications show up wherever the clinician is working—no user validation required, and no manual double documentation, thanks to smooth EHR integration. Data retention and de-identification options are also available.

The Silicon Valley-based startup Innovaccer’s product offerings are all designed to promote a collaborative approach to medicine, with data-sharing and aggregating solutions designed to pull data from disparate platforms and automate workflows for easier care coordination with better outcomes. With its intelligent algorithms and integrated workflows, Innovaccer’s remote monitoring solution InCare can prioritize patients based on risk scores and provide a single comprehensive source of data to better inform clinical decision-making while easing the administrative workload. And Innovaccer’s suite of data analysis tools can track just about any metric, as well as offer ACO-specific insights to help meet quality and financial goals.

Biofourmis leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning in its Care@Home remote monitoring platform to interpret and analyze physiological data to better inform clinical decision-making.  Care@Home’s end-to-end solution offers three levels of remote care and monitoring, including hospital-at-home services, post-acute care and chronic care. The modular, scalable solution is quick and inexpensive to deploy and boasts an analytics engine that “learns” patient baselines through data collection and significantly reduces false positive alerts. Biofourmis also offers medical-grade wearables for continuous passive monitoring and patient-specific notifications for providers.

More than just a patient engagement platform with a mobile app, m.care packages more than 60 features as smaller “applets.” Providers can pick and choose their preferred features to design their own customized virtual care and remote patient monitoring solution. Data collection and care management applets include tracking for physical activity, nutrition, medication adherence and vital sign monitoring. Other applets capture video and photos, deliver educational materials and can even gamify the care process. Monitoring plans are configurable by patient type and the device-agnostic technology supports over 160 Bluetooth-enabled medical devices. Powerful data analysis tools use AI and predictive modeling to monitor individual patients and targeted patient populations.

Noteworth’s highly scalable modular virtual care solutions fit together to offer a single data source to promote better care coordination and easier workflows. To improve and expand available data and track patients between encounters, Noteworth’s remote monitoring solution includes branded device kits or bring-your-own-device options, with more than 350 supported peripherals and patient-owned trackers. Patient engagement tools allow providers to send task-based reminders to patients, collect patient-reported outcomes and maximize medication adherence with a guided alert system. Noteworth also offers digital forms and surveys to help save time in-clinic by recording data directly into patient records.