Top 20 remote patient monitoring companies among academic medical centers

Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) boasts an impressive portfolio of digital care solutions to support remote patient monitoring while reducing readmissions and improving clinical outcomes for even the most complex health conditions. The ClinicianConnect portal facilitates remote monitoring and data collection, triage and intervention from anywhere, as well as powerful tools to analyze and manipulate patient population data. PatientConnect patient engagement tools offer custom digital care plans, virtual visits, medication reminders, education and customized alerts to notify care teams as needed. The HRS platform also integrates with all EHRs and EDWs and integrates with FDA-approved peripherals for accurate, consistent remote physiological data collection.

For pregnant women, academic medical centers offer extra reassurance that the right experts and resources are available if complications arise. The clinically validated Babyscripts virtual care platform allows busy research institutions to deploy a hybrid model of care that alleviates strain on care teams while reducing barriers to access and keeping patients engaged with customizable education content that can be standardized for patients across multiple facilities. Providers can use Babyscripts’ remote monitoring capabilities to assess patient risk profiles, with trigger protocols that alert providers to concerning data and prompt calls to patients from a 24/7 call-center. Mental health monitoring is also available through the myMentalHealth feature, which delivers risk assessment surveys to patients and alerts providers when further intervention is needed.

TytoCare’s enhanced telehealth solution, with its handheld exam kit that allows guided physical exams from a distance, is designed to offer a better telehealth experience while containing costs and generating revenue. Providers can reduce in-person visits for chronic care patients, remotely monitor study participants and offer virtual triage to prevent unnecessary emergency room visits or hospital readmissions. TytoCare’s platform offers both synchronous and asynchronous visits, and remote data flows directly into EHR to keep your workflows smooth and efficient. Patients can utilize the TytoCare device and mobile app on their end to remotely access care anytime, even outside of your normal clinic hours.

Vivify Health’s remote patient monitoring solution, Vivify Pathways, offers a highly scalable and customizable telehealth solution for high-quality, cost-effective remote care. The device-agnostic platform and its accompanying app guide patients and their informal 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. It’s user-friendly, too, with a patient-facing portal designed for easy adoption among any patient population—the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center reported acceptance rates of about 90 percent among congestive heart failure patients with an average age of 74.

Better patient engagement means better adherence to care plans. GetWell’s Loop remote monitoring and engagement platform helps care teams keep patients motivated about their care with automated virtual check-ins to let patients know what to do and expect. Patient-supplied data helps care teams remotely monitor risks, flagging patients for further intervention to stave off additional complications and preventable ER visits or readmissions. Loop boosts PROMS collection rates without additional work from the care team and helps clinicians optimize their time with fewer phone calls and unnecessary office visits. Providers can customize care plans according to their needs and preferences or choose from GetWell’s extensive library of clinically validated plans.

Accuhealth’s turnkey remote patient monitoring solution is a fully managed service to help primary care physicians and specialists deliver high-quality continuous care, increase revenue and optimize care team workloads. Physiological data is automatically transmitted from 4G-enabled devices and flows directly into EHR with no documentation required. Accuhealth’s in-house team of English and Spanish-speaking nurses and medical assistants analyze patient data and escalate as needed, further streamlining care team workflows and allowing clinicians to manage by exception. Accuhealth’s software automatically generates claims and time-tracks clinical interactions, which makes billing faster and simpler with fewer denials and easier reimbursement.

Teladoc Health’s Livongo platform aims to reduce the cost and clinical workload associated with chronic illnesses through on-demand support and one-on-one health coaching. Livongo is available to address numerous chronic conditions: diabetes management, mental health management, weight management, diabetes prevention, hypertension management and heart failure. All coaching programs utilize a data-driven approach to help members adopt healthier habits (such as using connected remote monitoring devices), adhere to care plans and gain better understanding of their own health information. Members complete small health challenges that can add up to big changes, including fewer complications or preventable emergency room visits. Numerous health plans cover Livongo services, including Medicare Advantage, making it an easy pick for AMCs looking to move the needle on chronic care management.

Close follow-up and surveillance are important to prevent hospital readmissions and reduce complications. Health Catalyst’s configurable patient engagement platform Twistle automates the process, delivering better clinical outcomes without the added strain on busy clinical teams. Standardized content and digital care plans reduce variability of care across multiple facilities or patient populations, and the direct connection to the care team via two-way communication and automated reminders means fewer no-shows and same-day cancellations and lower call volume. Twistle also offers a variety of in-home monitoring devices to remotely collect physiological data, and the user interface utilizes proven engagement methods to better capture patient-reported outcomes.

Current Health’s comprehensive remote monitoring platform offers multiple levels of care for a variety of health conditions, including hospital at home, transitional care, chronic care, decentralized clinical trials and digital biomarker development. Remote monitoring of physiological data can be conducted through a variety of third-party devices and wearables, or Current Health offers its own FDA-cleared wireless biosensor that continuously and passively collects physiological data with the same accuracy as an ICU monitor. The clinical dashboard displays data from multiple streams and automatically flags patients in need of intervention, making it easier for care teams and researchers to remotely manage large populations. CurrentHealth can also coordinate all device logistics and work with network partners to provide in-home services like blood draws and medication delivery.

Philips Healthcare’s remote monitoring solutions support virtual care delivery across the acuity spectrum with a variety of tools to meet just about any clinical need. Providers can use the Philips remote monitoring platform to assign digital care plans and interventions, collect and analyze physiological data from supported devices and conduct video visits. The Philips remote system supports the BioIntelliSense BioSticker and BioButton wearable sensors, which adhere to the skin and remain in place for as long as 90 days to passively track and transmit data without requiring any direct action from patients. Providers who want to step up their data collection even further can opt for Philips’ patient-reported outcomes solution, which includes hundreds of clinically validated survey tools and advanced analytics features.

A number of prominent research institutions have embraced m.Care’s remote care platform because of its highly customizable features, easy integration with over 160 Bluetooth-enabled remote monitoring devices and provider interface that makes it easier for care teams to oversee large numbers of patients. Providers can pick and choose from more than 60 individual features—“applets,” in m.Care parlance—to customize the Patient Engagement Platform for entire populations or individual patients. Applets include tracking for physical activity and nutrition, medication adherence and vital sign monitoring, along with photo and video capture, educational content delivery and gamification. On the provider side, the Care Management Workbench offers alerts and notifications and predictive modeling so providers can intervene to prevent unnecessary ER visits and readmissions.

With its remote monitoring capabilities and chronic care management tools, Raziel Health’s continuous care platform has won effusive praise for its flexibility and return on investment for a variety of healthcare settings, from academic medical centers to rural hospitals. Three levels of care are available: Single to Multi Chronic, which provides continuous monitoring for one or more chronic conditions; Complex Medical & Social, which utilizes the RPM solution to deliver more intensive care for sicker patients with significant social needs; and Hospital at Home for continuous monitoring of high-risk patients with ICU physician support. Raziel’s patient engagement tools are designed with geriatric design principles in mind and senior-friendly pre-loaded devices are available. Raziel also offers tailored levels of support—providers can outsource program management entirely to Raziel, take it all in-house or design hybrid models to meet their specific needs.

Conversa’s Automated Virtual Care and Triage platform helps facilities of any size remotely monitor patients with a variety of health conditions and direct them to the right care at the right time. Using patient “health signals,” including patient-reported data, biometric data, outcomes and symptoms, Conversa’s AI-powered chatbot leads highly personalized text-based conversations to assess risk and, when necessary, escalate to phone calls, telehealth, e-visits or in-person consults. Conversa boasts a large library of virtual care pathways, including plans for chronic and behavioral care, post-acute care, pre and post-surgical care, COVID-19 triage and many others. Conversa boasts an impressive 32 percent reduction in hospital readmissions among Medicare patients who use the platform, a 70 percent reduction in colonoscopy no-shows and high patient and care team satisfaction rates.

OB-GYN providers face enormous demands for their time and skills. For providers who practice in academic settings, the right tools for surveillance and data manipulation are essential as they oversee care for patients with a variety of risk profiles across multiple facilities. PeriGen’s PeriWatch Vigilance early warning system and clinical decision support tool makes data manipulation easier, with AI-assisted analytics to help clinicians simultaneously monitor hundreds of patients in multiple locations. PeriWatch continuously sorts and classifies data according to the institution’s specific clinical parameters, notifying clinicians when abnormalities occur. Automated notifications show up wherever clinicians are—EHR, census or workstation—with no user validation required. It interfaces smoothly with EHR, which means no double documentation to bog down workflows. The PeriWatch Surveillance fetal surveillance and documentation software offers the same powerful data analytics at nurse’s stations and bedsides to help improve labor and delivery outcomes.

VitalTech’s VitalCare virtual care platform is an interoperable end-to-end solution designed to make remote care and care coordination easy and accessible to all, so patients and care teams alike can reap the clinical and financial benefits. The core VitalCare platform integrates vital signs from Bluetooth Low Energy devices (no wireless internet or cell signal needed), allows nutrition tracking, provides medication reminders and customized surveys, and offers straightforward communication tools, including messaging and synchronous or asynchronous visits. Patients can use the VitalCare app on their own connected devices or VitalTech can ship pre-loaded tablets to simplify the process. The clinician view, with tiered levels of access and population-wide views of patient data, offers custom triggers and automated alerts and easy logging of ICD-10 and CPT codes. Another bonus: VitalCare is the only virtual care platform authorized to use FirstNet, a dedicated broadband wireless network for public safety use.

Rimidi’s physician-created condition-specific management solutions aren’t designed to replace EHR—instead, they integrate within your existing EHR workflows to boost their functionality. Consolidated data from connected devices and surveys automatically flow into the patient record and are mapped against practice or nationwide clinical guidelines to support treatment recommendations and improve outcomes. With iterations for chronic care, cardiometabolic conditions, epidemic management and perioperative care, Rimidi focuses extra attention on comorbid disease states, social determinants of health and patient-reported outcomes. When it comes to basic, big-pictures questions, like whether screenings are up to date and key metrics are where they should be, care teams can expect to find the answer quickly and efficiently with Rimidi’s snapshot tool. Rimidi’s clinical decision support engine supports just about any insight or intervention, including referral management and clinical trial identification.

Seeking care can be a confusing and exhausting journey, particularly for patients with complex or chronic health conditions. SeamlessMD’s “digital care journey” platform works to simplify the care continuum and deliver better outcomes with its large library of digital care plans and easy senior-friendly interface that helps patients stay actively engaged with the care process and adherent to care plans. SeamlessMD collects patient-reported outcomes and physiological data from an array of common wearable devices, and providers can assign customized content in several languages to maximize patient comprehension. The multi-center collaborative capabilities make it easier for care teams and researchers to share information and participate in research across multiple sites—an attractive feature for university health systems and other research institutions.

The San Francisco-based Innovaccer’s data analysis and care coordination solutions are designed to help care teams access the right data at the right time without wasting valuable time on redundant tasks or manual searches. The InCare coordinated care and care management platform streamlines the care process with automated worklists to support care plans and locate gaps, comprehensive patient profiles that pull from multiple sources, automated outreach for enhanced engagement and campaigns, easy communication within the EHR workflow and deep population insights. Care teams can remotely triage patients and escalate as needed and address social determinants of health through community engagement tools. Other Innovaccer solutions, like InGraph, helps care teams and institutions track just about any conceivable metric, including utilization patterns, cost and quality measures, risk models and custom metrics for a variety of uses.

CareSignal’s scalable and cost-effective deviceless remote monitoring solution seeks to extend the benefits of remote monitoring to all patients, regardless of their tech literacy or access to smart devices. Patients report data through automated text messages or phone calls on devices they already own, with language written at or below a sixth grade reading level to maximize patient comprehension and promote equitable access. For patients who rely on mobile devices with limited minutes or texts, CareSignal offers a Free to End User (FTEU) feature, so patients can freely engage with texts and calls to report lab values, receive educational “nudges” and scheduling reminders and other customized feedback. When patient-reported data falls outside established parameters, CareSignal’s team offers sub-clinical follow-up and escalation as needed. The CareSignal solution is an excellent add-on to any digital care strategy to reach all patients, regardless of their resources, to keep them engaged in the care process and deliver better outcomes for all.

Validic’s digital health and data aggregation solutions help care teams access and utilize personal health data to meet the needs of individual patients, populations and institutions. The device and platform-agnostic software pulls data from both wearables and in-home clinical devices and pushes it into clinical and research systems, EHRs and HIEs so care teams can view it in almost real time and deliver recommendations with the most up-to-date information. Validic’s unified data stream facilitates easier care coordination between care teams, and the remote monitoring capabilities helps providers identify at-risk patients and intervene to prevent readmission. For research and reporting, the Validic platform delivers uniformly formatted, de-identified and HIPAA-compliant data to the relevant systems, reducing the need for manual data manipulation.