Study Shows RPM Works Best When it Supports The Human Effort of Interpreting Data

Remote Patient Monitoring isn’t just about collecting numbers — it’s about helping care teams make sense of them.

A study called “Assembling the Puzzle: Exploring Collaboration and Data Sensemaking in Nursing Practices for RPM” looked at how nurses actually use RPM data in their daily work.

What they found was eye-opening: nurses spend a lot of time trying to interpret the raw data — figuring out what’s real, what’s noise, and how it fits into the bigger picture of a patient’s health — often before they even reach out to the patient.

The researchers noticed that when RPM tools don’t make collaboration easy, teams invent their own fixes — like chat threads, shared spreadsheets, and message tags — just to keep up.

Another insight: as RPM programs scale up, communication overhead doesn’t just add up, it multiplies. Tiny alerts turn into long message threads, handoffs get messy, and no one’s quite sure who owns which alert. Add in time zone or shift differences, and things can get confusing fast.

At Vironix Health, we take this seriously. Good design in RPM isn’t just about better alerts, but it’s about supporting the human side of interpretation: adding context, coordinating across clinicians, and helping teams see the signal through the noise.

💬 For those working in RPM, when do your teams feel “drowned in alerts” vs. “clear on what matters”? What tools or habits make the difference?

SOURCE: https://lnkd.in/ggH2QbFn