Remote monitoring can be used in a number of different industries from manufacturing, to energy, to construction, to healthcare, and beyond. Let’s look at a recent example of how it can be used in patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
Roughly 10% of women have incidents of critically high blood pressure in postpartum. To help, Babyscripts improves postpartum assessment in patients through remote monitoring with an automatic blood pressure cuff.
Across five maternity hospitals, a study was conducted between September 2020 and July 2022, looking at 1,260 patients enrolled in the Babyscripts myBloodPressure module. The group used Babyscripts myBloodPressure to self-record their blood pressure levels, capturing data and communicating it back to the provider team through an internet-connected blood pressure cuff and Babyscripts’ smartphone app.
Here is how this can help:
- Identify those at risk of severe complications from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
- Of those enrolled, 74% were highly engaged with monitoring, entering seven or more blood pressures.
- Of those who entered at least one blood pressure, 9% entered at least one critical range blood pressure.
With technology such as this, a patient can self-identify risk through surveys, assessments, and remote patient monitoring. Looking to the future, we will continue to see technology help care for those with high risks, ultimately improving the patient’s experience.