20 Most Popular Remote Monitoring Companies Among Rural Hospitals

 

Available digital healthcare solutions are evolving and improving rapidly, transforming how healthcare organizations meet patients’ needs. Few healthcare facilities have stood to benefit from the rise of telehealth technology as much as rural hospitals, which often serve as the primary source of outpatient services for underserved local communities.

But recently, rural hospitals have struggled to sustain the high levels of outpatient care they typically provide. Additionally, hospitals in rural areas rank last when it comes to telehealth adoption, which has left them poorly prepared to take part in the shift to virtual-first care and put their financial health at risk. 

According to a recent McKinsey report, that will soon change, as rural hospitals increasingly turn to remote patient monitoring solutions to provide better, more accessible primary care and improve coordination with regionally scarce specialists. To do so, they’ll need to choose the right platform for their use case. With the AVIA Connect platform, rural hospitals can better evaluate vendors to find solutions that best fit their needs. Now, let’s take a look at the top 20 most remote monitoring companies for rural hospitals.

 
 

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Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) helps providers support healthy changes in patient behavior to reduce readmission and improve clinical outcomes. Its remote monitoring solutions include PatientConnect Complete, PatientConnect Core, PatientConnect Mobile, and PatientConnect Voice. Hundreds of leading health systems, physician groups, and home health organizations use its platform, which features more than 90 care plans, educational videos, educational resources, and medication reminders. 

What makes HRS different?

The HRS platform features a clinician portal that allows providers to monitor, triage, and care for their patients using real-time data. This capability enables responsive case management, an area that rural hospitals often strive to improve. Primary care providers and specialists can also use the platform’s risk triaging; customizable, disease-specific care plans; and communication tools (e.g., video calls, phone calls, messaging) to streamline clinical monitoring and communication. And with CaregiverConnect, PatientConnect Mobile, and PatientConnect Voice, both patients and caregivers are empowered to stay actively invested in long-term health outcomes.

 
 

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TytoCare provides clinicians with advanced physical examination solutions that facilitate remote diagnosis. The TytoCare portfolio also includes three complementary telehealth products – TytoHome™ for consumers, TytoPro™ for professionals, and TytoClinic™ for remote point-of-care locations. The underlying telehealth platform that supports these solutions allows clinicians to conduct live video exams and schedule visits.

What makes TytoCare different?

TytoCare’s handheld exam kit and app allow patients to undergo guided medical exams of the heart, lungs, skin, throat, ears, and body temperature. The cloud-based platform features built-in guidance technology and machine learning, which help ensure the accuracy of each exam. Whether patients use the kit at home or at a point-of-care location, TytoCare replicates a face-to-face clinician visit. This solution allows rural hospitals to extend existing services so patients can access better care no matter where providers are located and without the normal limitations of virtual visits.

 
 

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Since 2014, Babyscripts has offered the most-implemented mobile clinical solution for remote monitoring in pregnancy. The company’s mission is to eliminate maternal mortality by delivering a new care model that transforms the way expectant patients access prenatal and postpartum care. Babyscripts’ remote monitoring solution, Virtual Maternity Care, provides a clinically validated way for OB/GYNs and other maternal healthcare providers to manage patient risk levels and improve health outcomes pre- and post-childbirth.

What makes Babyscripts different?

Babyscripts’ Virtual Maternity Care solution addresses social determinants of health that have long impacted maternal morbidity and mortality, a problem that. Babyscripts provides a mobile app-based solution that allows providers to deliver three tiers of care: 1) customizable educational content, 2) individual remote patient management tailored to mental health and hypertensive risk levels, and 3) care coordination at the insurer and population level to improve outcomes while optimizing costs. Rural hospitals may not have ready access to consistent maternal care or educational resources, so Babyscripts can significantly improve their capacity to support expectant parents.

 
 

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Founded in 2018, Accuhealth is a leading healthcare technology company, providing clinics and enterprises worldwide with turnkey solutions for remote monitoring. The Accuhealth platform integrates with a broad range of EHRs, including Athena, Cerner, Epic, and Evident, among others. Accuhealth’s services improve health outcomes and patient satisfaction, all while reducing costs for payers and increasing revenue for clinics.

What makes Accuhealth different?

Accuhealth takes a “touchpoints as a service” approach to delivering its telehealth solutions, making it simpler for healthcare facilities to implement and manage remote monitoring programs. Accuhealth provides all needed hardware and software, as well as first-line 24/7/365 clinical monitoring, real-time vital transmission, and artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced data insights. With no upfront costs for equipment or software and EHR integration, Accuhealth provides a streamlined path for rural hospitals establishing remote monitoring capabilities.

 
 

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Get Well helps organizations achieve patient engagement across the care continuum using innovative technology and scalable processes. Its platform aims to create a consistent digital experience for patients and their families. Get Well’s four integrated solutions – GetWell Inpatient™, GetWell Rounds+™, GetWell Loop™, and GetWell Docent – also help increase staff efficiency and help them engage patients before and after clinical interactions.

What makes Get Well different?

By creating a consistent patient experience from virtual check-in to post-appointment follow-up, Get Well solutions use automated communications that help providers to have real-time visibility into patient risk levels. Not only does this allow providers to appropriately triage patients for immediate care, but it also allows staff to serve more patients while maintaining quality of care. These capabilities are particularly valuable in rural communities, where staff shortages among medical specialities often affect continuity of care.

 
 

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Vivify Health created the world’s first remote care platform based on consumer mobile devices. Its cloud platform is highly scalable, allowing providers to connect biometric and mobile devices with integrated EHRs from some of the largest health systems in the United States. The Vivify platform features an intuitive user interface, which allows patients to easily connect and share their health information with providers, family, and caregivers.

What makes Vivify Health different?

Vivify Health’s solutions – Vivify Pathways +Home and Vivify Pathways +Go – enable hospital systems to adopt a direct-to-consumer (DTC) service model. Providers can use Vivify’s cloud-based, device-agnostic Remote Care Management platform to monitor patient vitals to reduce readmissions; expand available services; reduce costs and inefficiencies; and improve patient engagement, health outcomes, and satisfaction. Vivify Health’s bring-your-device (BYOD) solution, Pathways +Go, is particularly well suited for rural communities. Its broad compatibility and more than 90 modifiable, disease-specific care protocols can help local hospitals quickly launch and scale remote monitoring programs.

 
 

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Livongo (Teladoc Health)

Livongo, a subsidiary of Teladoc Health, allows providers to better support patients living with chronic conditions – from diabetes and obesity to mental health disorders to hypertension and heart failure. Livongo’s remote patient management platform includes personalized tools to track key health metrics, including blood sugar, blood pressure, weight, activity, and daily nutrition. Livongo delivers better clinical and financial outcomes while improving the patient experience for people with chronic conditions.

What makes Livongo different?

Livongo takes a personalized, data-driven approach to remote patient monitoring that helps patients develop healthy lifestyle habits. Livongo allows providers to implement effortless data collection that then prompts Health Nudges™ to patients, with calls-to-action that encourage small changes that add up to significant improvements over time. This 24/7 remote monitoring solution includes emergency outreach for patients and one-on-one sessions with expert coaches. Livongo’s proactive solution can complement rural hospitals’ existing services and improve long-term outcomes for some of their most vulnerable patients.

 
 

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VitalTech began as a biosensor technology company and has expanded to develop its integrated digital health platform, VitalCare. Now, VitalTech helps providers and patients to better communicate and transmit data in real time. VitalTech equips healthcare facilities with the tools to improve patient health and wellness, foster independence, and enrich relationships, all while allowing patients to choose when to share information with family and caregivers. 

What makes VitalTech different?

VitalCare is a HIPAA-secure remote monitoring platform that simplifies how physicians and patients connect online – whether using the app to video chat, call, or message one another. Physicians can use VitalCare to remotely triage care and monitor patients’ self-reported vitals, nutrition, and medication intake. VitalCare also simplifies workflows between providers, which can help rural hospitals and their often extended provider networks coordinate care. The platform also includes remote monitoring tools for COVID-19 and pediatric cases, as well as synchronous virtual visit tools for COVID-19.

 
 

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Wellth offers a smartphone-based Medication Adherence Rewards Program, which is designed to motivate individuals diagnosed with chronic behavioral health conditions to engage in healthy behaviors daily. Using a repetitive trigger-behavior-reward interface, Wellth encourages a long-term habit of self-management and has shown the ability to improve health outcomes, including emergency department (ED) utilization, hospital readmissions, and disease-specific metrics like A1C control for diabetics.

What makes Wellth different?

Wellth helps patients improve the daily behaviors that determine their long-term outcomes. Its program is designed to overcome patients’ Present Bias, the tendency for human behaviors to be motivated by immediate and tangible benefits rather than what is logically the healthier option in the long term. Wellth’s Medication Adherence Rewards Program has consistently produced adherence rates of more than 85 to 90%, even in behavioral health populations diagnosed with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, and comorbidities with physical health conditions. This platform can help rural hospitals integrate highly effective virtual care for chronic behavioral and physical health conditions that they may not have the capacity to monitor, assess, and treat via traditional outpatient services.

 
 

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Conversa Health delivers personalized, automated engagement for patients, members, employees, and consumers. Conversa solutions enable healthcare organizations to effectively and efficiently manage patients across the care continuum. With Conversa Connect™, the company’s proprietary patient profiling and health signals engine, and Conversa’s extensive library of clinically-intelligent engagement programs, health systems, payers, and pharmaceutical companies can encourage patient engagement and drive better health outcomes at scale.

What makes Conversa different?

Conversa offers an industry-leading remote monitoring platform called Automated Virtual Care and Triage™, which allows health systems to remotely monitor and communicate with patients, while data analysis informs better chronic care, perioperative, oncology, OBGYN, preventative care, and wellness services. Additionally, the platform automates tasks where possible, which can help rural hospitals provide more responsive services for patients. Its analytics identify and triage at-risk patients, determining when care needs meet criteria for phone calls, telehealth communication, video appointments, or in-person consults.

 
 

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Twistle is a health care platform that helps healthcare providers connect with patients, keeping them on track for faster recovery. Its Care Plan Automation platform helps clinical teams streamline care pathways by automating follow-up and surveillance. Twistle also provides a mobile health tool that connects providers and patients through secure automated messaging, photo and lab resulting sharing, surveys, and EHR integration.

What makes Twistle different?

With its automated workflows, Twistle’s remote monitoring solution can help rural hospitals streamline and scale telehealth services, reducing the burden on healthcare teams that are already stretched thin. The Twistle platform also helps healthcare facilities improve patient outcomes by closely monitoring care paths and providing alerts when care team engagement is needed, which can decrease morbidity and readmission rates.

 
 

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Philips Healthcare offers innovative remote monitoring that helps providers deliver better care, extending services to reach outside the hospital walls, all while lowering costs. Also, Phillips partners with customers to research and design digital solutions that simplify compliance so that providers can focus on improving quality of care. And Philip’s remote patient monitoring program helps facilitate collaboration between providers.

What makes Philips Healthcare different?

With Philips remote monitoring platform – and its built-in analytic tools – providers can monitor vitals, get alerts for metrics that are out of range, and schedule interactive video chats. Additionally, providers can assign patients to specific care protocols and interventions that are tailored to condition or acuity level, which can include measuring vital signs, completing surveys, watching educational videos, and participating in video visits with the virtual care team. These capabilities can help providers at rural hospitals save time while still providing consistent quality of care for large patient pools.

 
 

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Developed by LifeScience Technologies, m.Care offers predictive and proactive remote patient monitoring software that empowers patients and provides care teams with deeper insights. m.Care believes the growing demands placed on health care providers can best be addressed by merging state-of-the-art technologies with the specific needs of the clinical community. Its solutions are used by leading healthcare systems across the U.S. and help clinicians improve engagement among thousands of at-home patients while lowering operational costs. 

What makes m.Care different?

The m.Care platform has been designed to equip patients to proactively participate in their health care while providing the care team with deeper insight into the patients’ conditions. m.Care and its Patient Engagement mobile app feature over 60 separate, yet integrated, software applets that run on smartphones and tablets. Users can monitor key vital signs; track physical activity, nutrition, and medication adherence; capture and send videos and photographs; and consume educational material. These capabilities make m.Care well-suited for rural hospitals, which are often in dire need of increased monitoring capacity for patients who are post-surgery or are chronically ill.

 
 

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PeriGen delivers innovative perinatal software solutions that feature advanced statistical analysis capabilities. Led by skilled obstetrics practitioners and IT experts, PeriGen has created the PeriWatch® platform, which delivers better human recognition and communication about impending problems during labor. With PeriWatch, clinicians can spend more time on direct patient care and less time on manual calculations and data manipulation.

What makes PeriGen different?

PeriGen’s analytical tools allow providers to use consistent analysis and efficient displays of complex data in real time to increase clinical efficiency and standardization of care during childbirth. This is an area of care that rural hospitals often struggle to find the staff, time, and resources to improve. The platform features an automated Early Warning System that can help clinicians at rural hospitals intervene sooner – it uses machine learning to assess maternal and fetal vital signs, alerting clinicians when patients’ conditions worsen.

 
 

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SeamlessMD offers a remote monitoring and engagement solution that guides patients toward healthy behaviors and treatment plan adherence via reminders, education, and progress tracking on their smartphone, tablet, or computer. Providers can receive alerts, monitor patients, and access analytics to deliver better care. Additionally, SeamlessMD has long-standing expertise with establishing ease of use and integration with EHRs, as the first patient engagement platform with direct, turn-key integrations with both Epic (App Orchard) and Cerner (CODE).

What makes SeamlessMD different?

SeamlessMD’s Digital Care Journey platform allows health systems to stay connected to patients across their healthcare journey – through surgical care, oncology, chronic care, and more. In rural communities, this remote monitoring platform would allow patients to have consistent communication and coordination between care teams across locations and medical specialties, potentially leading to better long-term outcomes and patient adherence as a result. To date, more than 20 clinical studies and evaluations have shown that SeamlessMD helps providers reduce length of stay, readmissions, and costs.

 
 

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Teladoc Health has created digital health solutions based on the idea that everyone, everywhere, should have access to the best healthcare on their terms. Now, Teladoc Health delivers whole-person virtual care that includes primary care, mental health, and chronic condition management. The company delivers a unified and personalized patient experience, using technologies that allow patients to access health care more easily and help providers extend their services. 

What makes Teladoc Health different?

With its remote monitoring offering, Solo™, Teladoc offers a Telehealth Network and Services platform that supports access and delivery of high-quality, cost-effective clinical care. Solo delivers integrated, scalable capabilities for any use case, care setting, and budget, connecting healthcare systems with third-party applications and monitoring devices on a single platform. The company has extensive experience in telemedicine, telecommunications, healthcare products and services, and robotics to assist health systems to deploy telehealth programs efficiently. Partnering with a vendor with that depth of expertise is crucial for allowing rural hospitals to launch remote monitoring programs quickly and cost-effectively.

 
 

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Raziel Health offers a remote patient monitoring solution that allows care providers to implement chronic care management (CCM) and remote patient monitoring via a single solution. Its system combines easy-to-use technologies that support positive patient experiences and enable timely clinical intervention. Raziel Health’s platform integrates with hundreds of custom Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved monitoring devices and activity trackers. Upon admission to the remote monitoring program, patients receive a monitoring device and a pre-paired smartphone for data capture and transmission of required vitals.

What makes Raziel Health different?

Raziel Health’s platform supports remote monitoring and CCM services for several patient conditions and chronic diseases, including pre- and post-surgical, hypertension, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, diabetes, and cancer. By using Raziel Health, rural hospitals can provide video visits, contextual surveys, alerts, interventions, escalations, emotional, lifestyle, and nutritional coaching virtually and reduce the burden on existing outpatient services. And with Raziel Health, care teams can more efficiently monitor patient vitals while AI algorithms identify and send alerts for readings that call for immediate intervention.

 
 

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Created by doctors, Rimidi enhances connected care by combining patient-generated health data and clinical EHR data via its cloud-based platform. This approach enables personalized care management that puts patients’ needs first and gives care teams access to patient-specific clinical insights and actions, improving care decisions, patient-provider relationships, and health outcomes.

What makes Rimidi different?

Rimidi offers two remote monitoring platforms that can help rural platforms scale much-needed care – its Cardiometabolic Management Platform and its Epidemic Triage & Monitoring Platform. Rimidi’s cardiometabolic platform supports disease management of some of the most prevalent and costly chronic conditions, which can help fill key care gaps facing rural hospitals today. The platform consolidates EHR data and data from remote monitoring devices. This data is then used to manage conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, heart failure, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and obesity. Rimidi's Epidemic Triage & Monitoring Platform features symptom and exposure surveillance capabilities, as well as virus and antibody testing, helping protect the health and safety of providers and patients.

 
 

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Validic delivers convenient, easy data access to mobile health and in-home devices, fitness equipment, clinical sensors, activity wearables, smart bands, and wellness applications. Validic offers two complementary remote monitoring solutions, Validic Impact – its RPM and digital health operating system – and the Validic HealthBridge app. Together, these solutions help healthcare systems create dynamic workflows that allow providers to track patient progress.

What makes Validic different?

Validic Impact is built on an award-winning healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) platform that simplifies how healthcare systems can access data from mobile health and in-home devices. The platform can be customized and integrated into existing healthcare systems and workflows, while patients can use the HealthBridge app to track healthcare metrics collected. As a result, rural healthcare facilities can quickly design, deploy, and scale new digital health programs to meet their needs no matter where they are on their digital transformation journey.

 
 

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Carium has developed an advanced virtual care platform that empowers patients and their caregivers to stay proactively involved in their care plans, while providing their trusted clinicians with real-time, aggregated health data and analytics that can scale to multiple clinical programs. Carium offers a comprehensive digital solution that intelligently informs, connects, and offers personalized experiences to everyone involved in each patient’s care.

What makes Carium different?

Carium is an EHR-based solution that keeps pace with patients’ increasing demand for responsive virtual care. The platform is designed to enable personalized digital experiences and can help rural hospitals provide patients and their caregivers with the tools they need to communicate effectively with their care team. At the same time, providers and healthcare systems are enabled to deliver better care virtually, supported by a flexible platform that can adapt to each facility’s IT and clinical needs.

 

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