Remote Monitoring For Hypertension Resulted In Improved Care Outcomes, But Increased Spending

Remote consumer monitoring (also known as "remote patient monitoring", or RPM) for hypertension resulted in improved care outcomes, but increased spending. Compared with consumers with hypertension at matched low-RPM practices, those with hypertension at high-RPM practices had:

• A 3.3% relative increase in hypertension medication fills
• A 1.6% increase in medication days’ supply
• A 1.3% increase in unique medications received
• A total of 9.3% fewer hypertension-related acute care encounters
• A 5.9% reduced hypertension testing use

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