Hospital is Not the Home: 8 Lessons Learned from Implementing RPM for Acute and Transitional Care at Home

While we’ve grown accustomed to collecting and analyzing data in a hospital setting, monitoring patients at home and interpreting that data comes with important nuances. It also requires us to adjust our expectations and adapt to a new method of monitoring. 

In this white paper, we distill our expertise from implementing more than 40 intermittent and continuous acute care home monitoring programs since December 2017, and share key strategies and lessons learned for collecting and interpreting data in the home. 

Download this white paper to learn: 

• How to balance data accuracy and acceptability  
• How to distinguish between variability and pathology in in-home data 

• The importance of individualized alarms versus “normal” thresholds 
• Why balancing sensitivity, specificity, and risk is critical to appropriate in-home responses