Top 20 remote patient monitoring companies among pediatric hospitals

Most remote monitoring platforms focus on patients and providers, but in pediatrics, good outcomes depend on parents and caregivers staying engaged, too. Remote monitoring and telehealth solutions vendor Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) designed its CaregiverConnect app to help parents and caregivers participate in the care process from any location–a valuable tool when many families live an hour’s drive or more from the nearest children’s hospital. Available for iOS and Android, the CaregiverConnect app allows users to monitor vitals and care plan adherence, participate in virtual visits and communicate directly with the patient and providers. 

With its handheld exam kit and mobile app, TytoCare connects users with providers who guide them through medical exams, diagnose medical conditions, recommend a care plan and prescribe medications as needed. For pediatric patients and their caregivers, virtual visits with a TytoCare device can mean fewer clinic visits overall, whether for acute conditions like ear infections or chronic care management. Providers can utilize TytoCare to facilitate telehealth delivery in their own practices, even outside of normal clinic hours. With 24/7 access to care, patients are less likely to visit the ER or urgent care, while practices enjoy lower overall costs and reduced administrative burden.

The U.S. faces a maternity care shortage, with about half of all counties lacking any OB-GYNs to care for expectant mothers. Babyscripts aims to combat this problem with the only clinically validated obstetrics-specific mobile platform that allows providers to customize patient education 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.

The healthcare data and analytics firm Health Catalyst created its configurable patient engagement platform Twistle to optimize patient communications while delivering better care outcomes. Providers can utilize a large library of care plans to deliver timely information to mobile devices via secure text messaging. Care teams can use Twistle to keep pediatric patients and their families/caregivers engaged in the care process with patient-reported data collection, educational content and easy secure two-way messaging. Twistle can also be used to complete consent forms, deliver appointment reminders and scheduling prompts, conduct evaluations and eligibility assessments and monitor adverse events. The automated workflows ensure that patients receive continuous high-quality remote care with minimal interruption to clinical operations.

Vivify Health's remote patient monitoring solution, Vivify Pathways, offers a truly customizable solution to help patients and their families stay engaged and motivated in care plans. The device-agnostic platform utilizes an app to guide patients and parents/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 intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

Accuhealth’s turnkey remote patient monitoring solutions have earned major accolades for its accessible devices, seamless EMR integration and fully managed services. 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 round-the-clock team of nurses and medical assistants. The clinical team analyzes data, connects with patients who submit abnormal readings and escalates to providers as needed, minimizing the workload for providers while yielding better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction. Accuhealth can also automatically generate RPM codes and time track clinical interactions for cleaner claims and easier audits.

Teladoc Health, a major player in the telehealth market, offers a supplemental remote coaching solution with its consumer-facing platform Livongo. This chronic care management program offers on-demand support and one-on-one coaching to help members adopt healthier habits, adhere to care plans and gain better understanding of their own health information. The program 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. The gamified approach is a winner for pediatric patients, and when patients or devices report concerning data, the app can be programmed to reach out to emergency contacts.

VitalCare’s claim to fame: It’s the only virtual care platform authorized to use FirstNet, a dedicated broadband network for public safety use only. But there are lots of other things to like, too. 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 pre-loaded tablet. The app itself offers a range of customizable patient engagement tools, including medication reminders, surveys and patient communications. The VitalCare Family feature gives parents/caregivers their own window to monitor patient progress, send medication reminders and join video visits with the care team from anywhere.

Modular and scalable—that’s how Noteworth describes its virtual care offerings that slot neatly together to provide a single data source for better care coordination and improved workflows that allow providers to see more patients in the same amount of time. 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 and parents/caregivers, collect patient-reported outcomes and maximize medication adherence with a guided alert system.

Carium’s virtual care system looks beyond episodic care with its agile, scalable EHR-based solution for digital care that gives providers a single view into multiple data streams with actionable data analysis. Asynchronous visit tools, intelligent automation and seamless integration with EHR mean smoother workflows and reduced administrative burden. The user-friendly patient engagement tools keep patients (and their parents/caregivers) on track with reminders to take medications and use monitoring devices, mental health check-ins, educational materials and two-way communications. For pediatric hospitals that want to lean into their own branding, Carium also offers a private label option.

What if providers could call pediatric patients every day to remind them to use their inhalers or check their blood sugar? The healthcare IT developer Get Well translates a pipe dream into a real-world solution with its Loop platform, which offers two-way communication, automated daily health status check-ins and remote data collection without devices. With actionable real-time data, providers can manage by exception, thus reducing their administrative burden while boosting revenue and reimbursements. Loop offers more than 250 digital care plans, or content can be customized to meet practice or individual physician preferences.

Current Health’s namesake platform enables healthcare organizations to design, launch and scale home-based care for any patient population, with a longitudinal view that follows patients across the continuum of care. The user interface includes a unified dashboard that displays data from multiple sources, easing the workflow issues that can arise from disparate systems while providing actionable information for clinical decision-making. 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. The customizable, interoperable system allows hospitals to design a home care program that meets their individual needs while optimizing the administrative burden for clinical staff.

As one of the biggest and best-known healthcare technology companies in the world, it makes sense that Philips Healthcare would boast a scalable, wide-ranging remote care platform that includes a variety of pediatric remote care solutions. Providers can assign patients to condition-specific care plans that can 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. The wearable devices adhere to the skin for weeks at a time and hang on through bathing and physical activity–an attractive feature for busy kids.

m.Care’s patient engagement platform is more than just a virtual care system with a mobile app. LifeScience Technologies, which developed m.Care, packages more than 60 features as smaller “applets” that allow for a highly customizable 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 videos and photos, deliver educational material and gamify the care process (ideal to engage pediatric patients). Monitoring plans are configurable by patient type and the device-agnostic technology supports over 160 Bluetooth-enabled medical devices. m.Care’s powerful data analysis engine uses AI and predictive modeling to provide better care insights to support clinical decision-making.

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. Its pediatric-specific offerings include pregnancy support, support for new parents during their baby’s first year and remote monitoring plans for obesity, mental health concerns and nutrition. With its AI-powered automated triage system, Conversa identifies at-risk patients and directs them to higher levels of care, including phone calls, telehealth, e-visits and in-person consults.

PeriGen’s goal is pretty straightforward: Make data manipulation easier so clinicians can focus on patients instead. With its PeriWatch Vigilance early warning system and clinical decision support tool for obstetrics, PeriGen offers AI-assisted data analysis tools to help clinicians simultaneously monitor hundreds of patients at multiple sites. PeriWatch Vigilance continuously sorts and classifies data according to the institution’s clinical parameters and notifies clinicians when abnormalities occur. The automated notifications show up in EHR, census or workstation, with no user validation required, and smooth EHR interfacing means no double documentation to bog down workflows. While PeriWatch Vigilance doesn’t store analysis data in the EHR, data retention and de-identification options are available.

The SeamlessMD digital care journey platform works hard to live up to its name, with smooth integration into EHR systems, compatibility with common wearable devices such as Fitbits and continuous improvements based on patient, provider and partner feedback. SeamlessMD offers a large selection of digital care plans for pediatric patients and their caregivers across the care continuum with a wide array of health conditions. 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 was the first patient engagement and remote monitoring program with direct, turn-key integration into Cerner and Epic, and remains an industry standout for its proven high rate of patient adoption. Compared to similar remote monitoring solutions, it also boasts the most clinical evidence to support its effectiveness in shortening hospital stays, reducing readmissions and lowering costs.

Accessibility comes first for the CareSignal deviceless remote patient monitoring platform. Instead of remotely transmitting data from medical devices and wearables, patients respond to SMS text messages and interactive voice response calls to provide health status updates and engage with their care plan. Evidence-based automated messages written at or below sixth grade reading level are sent to the patient or parent/caregiver’s existing devices to identify at-risk patients, and CareSignal notifies case managers and providers about care opportunities. For pediatric patients, CareSignal offers a caregiver option for parents/caregivers to engage with the CareSignal program on behalf of minor patients.

Wellth’s smartphone-based medication and care plan adherence rewards program is a clever tool that uses behavioral economics to motivate patients to take their prescribed medications and complete assigned monitoring tasks. Members begin each month with a $30 rewards balance that they can maintain with daily photo uploads of medications and monitoring device readings. Each missed day translates into an automatic $2 deduction until the account hits a minimum balance of zero. At the end of the month, the member’s earned balance is loaded onto a rewards card that can be used like a regular credit or debit card. Regular reminders ease the process along, and Wellth offers custom support for a variety of chronic conditions. And while $30 is hardly a fortune, it might be an attractive bonus for pediatric patients who need extra support to stay on track with their care plans.

physIQ’s proprietary AI-powered digital remote care platform doesn’t just collect and analyze information—it’s the only FDA-cleared platform that “learns” about each patient’s individual baselines. The powerful data analytics engine detects even slight changes in patient physiology and offers tailored insights to inform clinical decision-making. The pinpointIQ remote patient monitoring solution follows patient care around the clock from hospital to home, collecting data from wearable biosensors to alert clinicians at the first signs of deterioration to help avoid preventable readmissions. pinpointIQ can be tailored for a variety of chronic and acute conditions, including hospital at home care.