Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising new tool to monitor patients who have historically required observation visits in a hospital, or would have remained hospitalized longer if initiated at hospital discharge, and was widely used in the COVID-19 pandemic. We report the outcomes of hospital admission and urgent/emergent care service utilization in a [...]

Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising new tool to monitor patients who have historically required observation visits in a hospital, or would have remained hospitalized longer if initiated at hospital discharge, and was widely used in the COVID-19 pandemic. We report the outcomes of hospital admission and urgent/emergent care service utilization in a [...]

Background: Respiratory failure is the most common organ failure syndrome in US hospitals (1). Hospitalists strive to detect the earliest signs of respiratory instability. Measurement of respiratory vital signs (like respiratory rate & oximetry) is a necessary aspect of risk stratification, but it is not sufficient. In one study, 46% of hospitalized patients had no [...]