When a grandmother can easily monitor her blood pressure and share with her doctor from her kitchen table, it signifies a big step in expanding care beyond the exam room. In addition to enabling patients with chronic conditions to play greater roles in managing their health, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) can improve patient/provider relationships, clinical outcomes, and practice efficiency. Have you considered encouraging more patients to use health monitoring devices? As medical device technologies become easier for patients and more efficient in feeding health data into the EHR, RPM use has grown significantly. The global digital patient monitoring devices market was estimated at almost $63 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand due to the increased need. [i] When your practice can capture ongoing vital measurements such as blood pressure, temperature, or blood sugar, physicians can easily view patients’ data in real time to closely monitor trends, detect anomalies, and determine if the patient’s condition is controlled. They can also adjust treatments, care plans, and even lifestyle behaviors far more expediently. Physicians can encourage patients to use health monitoring devices to: