And now, with remote monitoring clinics emerging out of necessity in rural and urban areas all over the country as a result of the pandemic, the key to the success of those clinics and the continued wellbeing of their patients is going to be the integration of a device data management platform designed specifically to meet their needs.
Ideally, remote monitoring data management software should streamline data and alerts from multiple manufacturers onto one unified dashboard so that care teams can continuously monitor patient device statuses from any mobile device, assess activity logs and add care notes without having to toggle between manufacturer databases and varying user interfaces. The management software should also allow teams to view alerts related to all standard device transmissions, patient device recalls, successful versus failed EHR uploads and the status of the review and billing of all remote reports.
The importance of the software’s scalability, configurability and workflow efficiency cannot be understated here. Those three key features alone provide clinicians and care teams with the opportunity to implement digital management platforms that cater precisely to their practice sizes and patient populations, and it even affords research and academic teams embarking on clinical studies with new opportunities to collect and collate cardiac device data more easily and efficiently.
A few short years ago, data management software was slowly emerging as an interesting future possibility for remote monitoring, but the reality is that it has quickly become one of the most critical components in which every cardiac remote monitoring clinic should now be investing.
About the author: Dr. Maninder Bedi is a board-certified electrophysiologist and one of the industry’s key opinion leaders on remote monitoring. He is also the founder and chief medical officer of Optimize EP, a digital health company committed to providing cardiologists and electrophysiologists with digital solutions for improving the management of cardiac device data.
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