Reviewing the Advances in Remote Therapeutic and Physiological Monitoring and Applicability for Chronic Pain Management

One Hyuk Ra,* Brian S Sou,* Jocelyn Streid,* Derick Davis,* Juan Pablo Solano Romero,* Roderick King Jr,* Jacob Michael Lurie,* Kevin Vu,* David J Oh,* Christopher L Robinson,* R Jason Yong,* Ken WK Lee,* Mohammed Issa* Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Christopher L Robinson, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 850 Boylston Street, Suite 320, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, USA, Email [email protected]: Remote therapeutic (RTM) and remote physiological monitoring (RPM) in chronic pain management are new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes introduced in the last decade in an effort to capture continuous patient data in the outpatient setting. RTM and RPM facilitate steady patient engagement and real-time data collection, offering a comprehensive overview into potentially both subjective patient experiences and outcomes and objective physiological measures. This review delves into the benefits of these technologies, including improved patient outcomes, and addresses challenges such as data security and technological literacy. Furthermore, examples from other specialties in medicine are given to draw possible conclusions of how it may be used in chronic pain. The potential of RTM and RPM to enhance chronic pain management is contingent upon careful consideration of ethical and regulatory issues and has the potential to provide the objective data that the field of pain may need.Keywords: remote therapeutic monitoring, remote physiologic monitoring, chronic pain