The future of remote patient management

Developing meaningful solutions

Within TNO’s DETERMINE programme, and in close collaboration with partners, we are developing technologies that enable remote care and support the transition toward value-based healthcare. Our work focuses on solutions for conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and sleep apnea, ensuring patients are actively involved and remain at the center of the innovation process. We have developed wearable technologies for cardiovascular screening and continuous monitoring, while advancing digital biomarker development and validation to ensure reliability, clinical relevance, and real-world adoption.

Bridging the gaps

The urgency of Remote Patient Management is clear: rising healthcare costs, staff shortages, and an aging population make a transition to a new healthcare system inevitable. Yet digitalization in healthcare is progressing too slowly, and innovators often face two valleys of death: first, moving from prototype to clinically validated solution; and second, scaling from proven solution to widespread clinical implementation.

Overcoming these challenges requires true collaboration: with clinicians, patients, companies, and researchers working side by side. TNO aims to serve as both accelerator and connector of innovation in Remote Patient Management, helping to bridge these gaps and bring digital care into everyday practice.

Interested to join?

Let’s shape the future of remote patient management together.

• TNO has set up a Digital Biomarker Lab in which we investigate daily-life health patterns through patient-centric digital biomarkers, accelerating personalised healthcare and improving patient outcomes. We offer services that support partners, such as clinics, research organization, MedTech and pharma, throughout the full digital biomarker journey. We identify promising signals, develop and validate reliable measures, ensure meaningful patient involvement, provide certified infrastructure for remote data collection, and generate the scientific evidence required for adoption. For more information, visit the website: tno.nl/digitalbiomarkerlab.

• For start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs operating in MedTech, TNO Fast Track has an active community of practice, focusing on addressing the main challenges within the MedTech field, such as MDR and reimbursement strategies.

• The eCMC — the Expertise Centre for Remote Monitoring & Coaching — is a joint initiative by TechMed Centre and TNO. Through this collaboration, eCMC connects science, healthcare and industry to accelerate innovation in RPM. The platform offers infrastructure, services, and a network for the design, development, implementation and clinical adoption of eHealth and remote-care solutions. More information: e-cmc.nl.

• The TKI High Tech Systems & Materials (HTSM) program is a public-private partnership that brings together industry, knowledge institutes, and government to accelerate high-tech innovation and translate research into practical applications. Within this framework, TNO participates as a knowledge partner, offering the opportunity for external organizations to collaborate on co-developing MedTech and digital health technologies, such as wearables for Remote Patient Management, and to jointly support their validation and scalable adoption in healthcare. Want to know more? hollandhightech.nl.