REMOTE PATIENT MONiTORING
UTM:RPM helps manage many
chronic conditions including
Congestive Heart Failure (“CHF”)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (“COPD”)
Diabetes
Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) (“MI”)
Pneumonia
Check Your Glucose Levels
UTMH is a suite of integrated solutions that provide software and hardware for communicating critical real-time health data to healthcare providers in a completely secure and easy-to-use way.
Our RPM Products are HIPAA-compliant remote patient monitoring systems facilitating patient-friendly home care monitoring. They provide efficient and simple solutions that benefit both patients and providers. Patients can remain in their homes while providing alerts to their medical providers with essential, time-sensitive data for managing chronic conditions and hence reducing the need for emergency room visits and hospital admissions.
Patients Manage Their Own Health
UTM:RPM helps patients manage their own health in their own home. They can help themselves avoid unnecessary trips to doctors’ offices, visits to the emergency room, and hospitalizations.
TRANSMISSION TRACKING
- Tracks time that providers spend monitoring patients and transmission of data related to overseeing their care remotely over a 30-day billing cycle. CMS codes 99454, 99457 & 99458 are tracked.
- Generates reports with detailed information that providers can then use to fill reimbursement claims to various healthcare plans
Reduced hospital Readmissions & fewer penalties
Readings outside the patient’s preset measurement range alerts medical staff.
UTM:RPM helps healthcare providers reduce patient readmissions, providing cost reductions while achieving Medicare’s HRRP objectives:
- Improving care coordination and communications between providers, patients, and their caregivers
- Enhancing discharge planning and follow-up
- Providing continuity of care through patient involvement and information sharing
Clinicians and medical providers get life-saving feedback
“Patient JD is being followed for severe congestive heart failure with ejection fraction of 10%. He is currently on hemodialysis 3 days a week. He has had 4 recent hospitalizations, all for fluid overload. He was started on RPM three weeks ago, after his family failed to record his daily weight and contact me about changes.
Four days ago after a daily transmission, he noted he felt worse. His weight had risen by three pounds AFTER DIALYSIS! Noting it, I gave him an immediate and large dose of furosemide. His symptoms abated in four hours. No hospitalization. All saved because he was on UTM:RPM. ”
– Warren Wexelman, M.D., Cardiologist
UTM:RPM at Columbia Memorial Health (“CMH”)
In 2016, CMH implemented UTMH:RPM for a small group of patients with chronic illnesses that have frequently required hospital readmission within thirty days after discharge.
Dr. Ronald Pope, Medical Director of the Care Centers and a family doctor who is leading the project for CMH, cited real-world applications for the technology. He explained that physicians at CMH have been able to use UTMH:RPM monitoring to make medication adjustments that have potentially prevented readmissions. In the context of patients with CHF, a chronic condition in which weight gain of a couple of pounds can signal a radical deterioration, Dr. Pope stated the following:
“Weight fluctuations are quickly reported by UTM’s alert system and we can make adjustments to their treatment almost immediately.”
Using rPM increases patients’ adherence to prescribed medical treatments, keeps them healthier, and out of hospitals
RPM provides caregivers, family members, and patients with the opportunity to participate actively in treatment plans. By regularly using UTM apps and the associated biometric devices, patients can communicate with their doctors and other medical professionals from home. UTM apps transmit critical information directly to clinical staff and, if necessary, initiate doctors’ conversations to take immediate steps for the patient.