From the Desk of our CEO:
Over the past few months, I’ve had a growing number of conversations with state health leaders, rural hospital administrators, and telehealth advocates who are working through one of the biggest opportunities our industry has seen to impact virtual care management in years: the federal Rural Health Transformation Program. Many of those conversations start the same way — someone found us through a resource list, a partner referral, or a conversation with a group like the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC), and they ask a version of the same question: “How are we going to be able to quickly find a proven RPM partner that can scale our target programs successfully to meet federal and state timelines and outcome goals?”
I want to answer that clearly: we’re not only a resource for state planning agencies — we are the remote patient monitoring solutions provider you’re looking for.
More Than a Resource — A Complete RPM Solution
Organizations like MATRC do essential work helping states and health systems understand what’s possible with telehealth. But when it comes time to actually deploy a program — to put a monitoring platform in the hands of real patients and real care teams — you need more than a toolkit or a resource list. You need a partner who has already built and proven the utility of the software platform at scale. That’s Locus.
Our platform is highly configurable for the specific patient populations rural programs are trying to reach; chronic disease management, high-risk obstetrics, oncology, pediatrics, and more. We support a broad range of key biometric devices — including the pulse oximetry (SpO2) monitoring that so many rural respiratory and cardiac programs are built around — and we’ve invested heavily in making sure those device integrations are not just functional, but genuinely reliable at scale. On top of that, our platform integrates with a wide range of EMR systems, so the data our devices capture doesn’t just sit in a separate app — it becomes part of real care coordination, visible to the care teams who need it. Addiitionally, we handle all the device logistics, warehousing, shipping, and technical support from the “Digital First Mile” to engagement throughout their care.
Why This Moment Matters: The Rural Health Transformation Program
The scale of the opportunity in front of us right now is hard to overstate. The federal Rural Health Transformation Program is a five-year, $50 billion commitment, and every state in the country now has an approved plan. Across those plans, telehealth and remote patient monitoring have emerged as the single most consistently cited investment priority — and the funding structure makes that almost inevitable: provider payments are capped at 15% of a state’s award and facility spending at 20%, while virtual care and RPM sit largely in the uncapped categories. States are being structurally steered toward technology, and RPM is where a meaningful share of that money is going to land.
We’re seeing this play out directly here at home. Virginia was approved for roughly $189.5 million in RHTP funding, with a significant share directed toward programs like CareIQ (health IT infrastructure, EHR modernization, and remote patient monitoring) and Connected Care, Closer to Home (telehealth hubs, mobile clinics, and maternal care networks). We are actively working to make Locus available to large Rural Health Transformation Program initiatives in Virginia and a number of other states, because this is exactly the kind of program our platform was built for: scalable, device-flexible, EMR-integrated, and light enough on care team workflow that resource-constrained rural staffs can actually execute with it.
Population Spotlight: High-Risk OB and MFM
Nowhere is that more evident than in high-risk obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine — one of the exact use cases called out in Virginia’s own “Connected Care, Closer to Home” priorities. We’ve implemented high-risk OB/MFM remote monitoring programs with some of the most respected health systems in the Commonwealth and across the country, including UVA Health, Inova, and VCU Health. We also partner directly with national HROB/MFM telemedicine providers, which means we understand not just the technology side of these programs, but the clinical workflows, reimbursement realities, and patient engagement strategies that make them succeed. If your state’s RHTP plan includes a maternal health component — and most do — this is a conversation we’re ready to have in detail.
Let’s Build This Together
Rural health transformation isn’t going to happen because of a resource list. It’s going to happen because states and health systems partner with vendors who’ve already done the hard work of building, integrating, and proving a platform at scale. We’ve built Locus to be flexible and meet communities where they are.
If you’re a state agency, health system, or telehealth resource team trying to figure out how to turn RHTP funding into a real, working remote patient monitoring program, we’d welcome the conversation. Reach out to us at locushealth.com or call 1-800-921-4324 — let’s talk about what your program needs and how Locus can help you deliver it.
Andy Archer CEO & Co-Founder, Locus Health