72% of acute patients are ready for home-based RPM recovery
CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES — Nearly three in four acute patients say they are comfortable using remote patient monitoring devices at home instead of recovering in a hospital — findings that arrive as Congress has extended the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver through late 2030.
According to a press release, patient readiness is no longer a barrier to hospital-at-home scaling. Device design and clinical oversight are.
Patient readiness backs home-based RPM programs
The data comes from a Vivalink survey of patients with acute conditions including cardiac disease and cancer, published June 4, 2026. Vivalink is an RPM hardware and software platform provider serving acute care and hospital-at-home programs.
“These findings validate that patients are ready and willing to participate in acute care at home models, directly supporting the compliance needed for hospital-at-home programs to thrive,” said Jiang Li, CEO of Vivalink.
94% of patients consider active provider data review important during home recovery — and 56% cite clinical monitoring as their primary reason for enrolling in an RPM program.
The confidence findings are notable in a patient segment historically associated with high acuity and complex care needs.
Seventy-five percent expressed confidence in RPM device accuracy for tracking vital signs, and 69% identified faster complication detection as the primary benefit they expect from home monitoring.
Device comfort determines RPM program retention
Patient willingness and program retention are not the same metric. Fifty-four percent of respondents cited skin irritation and device discomfort as the primary reason they would stop using an RPM device — a finding that frames wearability as a clinical compliance variable, not just a product preference.
Forty-seven percent of respondents reported prior RPM wearable experience, and more than 70% of that group reported favorable outcomes — a baseline that broadens the addressable population for home-based acute care.
“75% of patients expressed confidence in device accuracy for tracking vital signs at home,” the Vivalink survey found — validating that clinical trust in the technology extends to the patients wearing it.
66% anticipate improved comfort during home recovery, and 57% expect fewer hospital visits — patient-reported outcome expectations that closely align with hospital-at-home program goals.
The healthcare outsourcing sector supports this model across multiple functions: remote patient monitoring coordination, clinical documentation, prior authorization for home care equipment, and administrative support for hospital-at-home programs.
As RPM programs scale beyond early adopters, the operational infrastructure behind them — patient onboarding, data review workflows, device logistics — increasingly draws on outsourced healthcare teams.
For health systems building hospital-at-home capacity, patient readiness is the given. The operational infrastructure — staff, protocols, oversight workflows — is the gap to close.
