RPM in 2026: What conditions to treat? Many, many of them

Many conditions could benefit from patients using devices to transmit health data to physicians to customize treatment plans. Here is a roundup by Lucienne Marie Ide, M.D., Ph.D., founder and CEO of Rimidi, a company that operates remote patient monitoring and chronic care management systems.

Medical Economics: You had mentioned, as an example, patients who may have some risk conditions during pregnancy. What are some other good examples that remote patient monitoring might help in the rural health care setting?

Lucienne Marie Ide, M.D., Ph.D.: I think any of them. So you also have this dynamic or, in many communities, your rural versus urban population may overindex for some of these chronic cardiometabolic conditions, many of which stem from obesity, but hypertension, diabetes, etc., even heart failure. So I think all of those use cases can benefit patients in those communities. We're involved in an interesting project right now that's a “food as medicine” study that's sort of doing healthy food delivery to patients at home and looking at the impact on blood pressure control. So that's a really interesting one because, as you know, food deserts are another aspect of the challenge we have in many communities, both urban and rural, of patients having access to healthy food, which certainly plays a large role in many of these chronic health conditions.