Vendor Touts Remote Monitoring to Close Rural Maternal Care Gaps
Becker's Hospital Review profiles how remote patient monitoring (RPM) paired with nurse-led care management is being used to extend prenatal and postpartum care into rural and maternity-care-desert areas, where over 57% of rural hospitals no longer offer labor and delivery. The piece cites studies and health system examples, including UChicago Medicine and Novant Health, showing RPM improves postpartum blood pressure follow-up, reduces racial disparities in care, and lowers readmissions. It notes several states, including Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Nebraska, are funding maternal RPM through a rural health funding program, and that Medicaid, which finances about four in ten U.S. births, increasingly covers maternal RPM applications. The article is sponsored content from Health Recovery Solutions, an RPM vendor describing its own maternal health programs.