Remote monitoring involves collecting patients’ health data outside the clinic (e.g., at home) and securely transmit it to allow timely access by clinicians. This enables earlier discharge from the clinic, making therapy and hospital visits more adaptive through better monitoring of recovery and disease progression, and can also be used for prevention. This leads to better efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare. Examples are physical activity sensing, experience sampling through questionnaires, heart rate and oxygen saturation monitoring, and weight monitoring through smart scales.

RRD has extensive experience with various types of remote monitoring. Examples are: recovery of patients after a hip replacement, COPD symptoms management, improvement of physical activity and reduction of sedentary periods, and detecting arthritis flare-ups. We can provide expertise on remote monitoring techniques and applications, encompassing the entire lifecycle from innovation research to healthcare implementation. This includes research design, regulatory requirements, technical infrastructure and interoperability, and embedding new services into current workflows.

We have also developed an easily extensible remote monitoring software platform, called SenSeeAct. This includes Android and IOS apps that can, amongst other things, measure activity and administer questionnaires, open source cloud software which is integrated with third party platforms like Fitbit, and a patient management dashboard where clinicians can manage and monitor the patients.