Thanks for writing about this. I am based in DC and working with California Healthcare Foundation to develop a pilot of patient engagement with their health data, and remote monitoring is a good candidate for this.

As part of the data gathering, I did a lot of research on the economics of remote blood pressure monitoring and engaged patients and clinical experts in a walkthrough of the cost and benefit of moving to a “non-office-based” approach.

There’s now one good randomized controlled trial supporting this, and a CPT code out there that could potentially be transformed to support more modern technology (it is based on an older method of blood pressure checking).

You can read more on my blog at this address: http://www.tedeytan.com/?tag=costs+chcfp

Best,

Ted