Remote Patient Monitoring: Implications for Information Systems Researchers

Remote patient monitoring (RPM), a system using information and communication technologies to track patients' health from a distance, has expanded rapidly due to COVID-19 and payment policy changes, but faces significant challenges in how healthcare data is managed across fragmented systems. The main obstacles fall into three areas: trust and responsibility issues, limited and disconnected infrastructure (the technical systems that don't work well together), and changes in how healthcare workers do their jobs and what skills they need. The article calls for future research and curriculum changes to help information systems professionals address these challenges.