OVERVIEW
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is witnessing rapid growth in the healthcare sector. Patients increasingly expect their health to be tracked beyond hospital visits, while providers rely on continuous, accurate data to enhance decision-making. Also, elderly patients, hospice care patients, and those with terminal illnesses often need their vital signs to be regularly monitored through home care services or specialized care centers. RPM fulfills this need by using connected devices that deliver real-time health insights directly to healthcare professionals and providers.
When integrated with Care Management, RPM enables proactive interventions, reduces dependency on patient-reported data, and enhances patient health outcomes. This case study demonstrates how our RPM solution redefined care delivery for our client.
CLIENT
Our client is a US-based care management service provider serving hospitals and medical practices that want to shift from outdated manual data collection to automated, real-time monitoring. Their goal was to improve patient safety, reduce hospitalizations, and enhance engagement using connected devices and integrated technology.
Challenges
- Inaccurate Patient-Reported Data: Patients often misreported or forgot to log vital information, which made care decisions unreliable and sometimes delayed.
- No Real-Time Visibility: Care managers had no way to see vital changes (such as sudden blood pressure spikes) until the next patient check-in, with an increased risk of handling emergency situations.
- Time-Consuming Manual Data Entry: Data had to be manually entered into multiple systems, increasing errors and slowing down workflows.
- Inability to Prioritize High-Risk Patients: Without automated alerts, care teams struggled to identify which patients needed immediate attention.
- Low Patient Involvement: Patients interacted with care teams only during visits, leaving the patients disengaged from daily health management.
SOLUTION
We built a patient-centric mobile app integrated with connected health devices, powered by Validic. The solution allowed healthcare teams to capture and act upon health data continuously:
- Device Integration: The app connected with devices such as Withings blood pressure monitors, Fitbit wearables, and Omron glucose meters.
- Automatic Data Capture: Vital signs like blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose, temperature, and sleep patterns were automatically recorded.
- Seamless Data Flow: Data is transmitted securely into the Care Management Portal, ensuring instant availability to care managers.
- Real-Time Alerts: Notifications were triggered for abnormal readings, alerting both patients and care managers.
- Patient Engagement: Patients used secure chat and email to communicate with care managers, ensuring continuous interaction.
Benefits
- Accurate and Reliable Data: Automated device integration ensured continuous, precise health tracking without relying on patient memory.
- Proactive Healthcare Delivery: Real-time alerts empowered care teams to intervene early, preventing severe complications and hospital readmissions.
- Improved Patient Experience: Patients appreciated the convenience of monitoring from home using devices like Fitbit or Withings, and felt reassured knowing that the care managers can monitor their health parameters.
- Operational Efficiency: Automated workflows drastically cut down on manual data entry, reducing errors and freeing staff for patient-centric activities.
- Enhanced Engagement and Accountability: Patients became active participants in their care, motivated by instant feedback and remote connection to their providers.
- Stronger Collaboration: All stakeholders, including providers, care managers, specialists, and patients, could communicate seamlessly through the platform, ensuring that everyone was aligned on the patient’s health journey.
Tech Stack
- Programming Language: Java
- Backend Framework: Spring Boot
- Message Broker: RabbitMQ
- Frontend Framework: ReactJS
- Authentication & Security: JWT authentication, HIPAA-compliant
- Data Persistence: JPA (Java Persistence API)
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Cloud Services: AWS / Azure
- Architecture: Microservices
- Device Integrations: Tenovi, SmartMeter, Transtek, Validic
- EHR Integrations: Redox, Athena
- Deployment: Docker containerization
- Product Model: SaaS-based
About Emorphis
Emorphis Technologies is a world-class software development and solutions company that truly believes in “Innovation in motion”. Delivery innovation on the go at an accelerated pace has been our success mantra to date. Over the years, we have provided value to our clients in the field of enterprise mobility, cloud, IoT, backend development, Big Data Analytics, and Blockchain.
We serve industries ranging from unicorns and startups to large multinationals in the healthcare, telecommunications, fintech, retail, and publishing industries. Our go-to market software products – iStatement, iPublisher, and iBuggy have proved their mettle with positive, beneficial customer testimonials. We help our clients in successful product development, consulting services, and testing (manual & automated).
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