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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Connected Health
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1523401
This article is part of the Research Topic Digital Health Past, Present, and Future View all 18 articles

Navigating the Landscape of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) in Canada: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

Provisionally accepted
Khayreddine Bouabida Khayreddine Bouabida 1,2,3*Breitner Gomes Breitner Gomes 4Enoch Anane Enoch Anane 2,3Navaal Jagram Navaal Jagram 2,3
  • 1 University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • 2 St. George's University, St. George's, Grenada
  • 3 Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States
  • 4 Departement of community Health Sciences- Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

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    Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has driven significant advancements in Canadian healthcare, especially during the transformative period from 2018 to 2023. This perspective article explores the state of play and examines the current landscape of RPM platforms adopted across Canada, detailing their functionalities and measurable impacts on healthcare outcomes, particularly in chronic disease management and hospital readmission reduction. We explore the regulatory, technical, and operational challenges that RPM faces, including critical issues around data privacy, security, and interoperability, factors essential for sustainable integration. Additionally, this article provides a balanced analysis of RPM's potential for continued growth within Canadian healthcare, highlighting its strengths and limitations in the post-2023 context and offering strategic recommendations to guide its future development.

    Keywords: Remote patient monitoring, Digital Health, Virtual care, Canadian healthcare, healthcare technology, AI, Perspectives

    Received: 06 Nov 2024; Accepted: 17 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Bouabida, Gomes, Anane and Jagram. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Khayreddine Bouabida, University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC H2X 0A9, Quebec, Canada

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