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Wearable remote monitoring devices are increasingly being deployed to patients and utilized to extend patient data collection outside of conventional clinical encounters. The use of ambulatory monitoring devices in cardiology enables long-term, remote data collection for reliable diagnostics and continuous monitoring of cardiac disease. Despite the many advancements, there is still much work that needs to be done in terms of research to improve our understanding of actual outcomes and benefits of these tools. It is also critical to determine which patient populations are best suited to benefit from the use of these devices. This chapter provides a review of RPM devices in cardiology, and an overview of some key considerations in their use clinically with respect to safe, effective and efficient use of the data to impact patient care and outcomes.
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Krupinski, E.A., Pagliaro, J.A. (2021). Remote Patient Monitoring: Delegation of Responsibility. In: Bhatt, A.B. (eds) Healthcare Information Technology for Cardiovascular Medicine. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81030-6_3
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