How Should RPM Vendors Choose Remote Patient Monitoring Device Suppliers?

The following is a guest article by Jack Wang, the Vice President of AOJ Medical. RPM service and Telehealth are not new topics In the current health care market, and many RPM and Telehealth vendors have already set up services, systems, and applications for specified diseases or target patients. These kinds of vendors also treat remote monitoring devices as a key part of the services, such as different kinds of vital signs monitoring and chronic disease monitoring devices. The benefit of continually monitoring the conditions of the patients provides health care vendors an ongoing status from a technical and data-oriented view so that they can evaluate the patients’ state and optimize the care solutions more effectively. Vendors need various monitoring devices and these devices also need to be integrated into the entire health care system.  How to choose these kinds of device partners and suppliers is a little bit complicated for heath care vendors and many vendors have no hardware design and manufacturing background. During our three years of working side by side with RPM vendors, our experts at AOJ Medical summarized a few principles as good practices to help RPM vendors make more efficient decisions. Principle 1: Evaluate the technical competence of the suppliers. Due to the global supply chain division and cooperation, most hardware devices are from some manufacturing countries like China. Normally, there are no big differences in basic manufacturing competence among ...
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