TABLE 1.

Advantages and disadvantages of remote blood pressure monitoring

Advantages	Disadvantages
• Detection of white‐coat and masked hypertension	• Higher cost than office blood pressure and ambulatory blood pressure
• Measurement in daily activities	• User training required
• Assessment of daytime blood pressure	• Nighttime blood pressure assessment is less effective
• Assessing the effects of anti‐hypertensive drugs	• Poor morning blood pressure surge assessment
• Facilitates long‐term follow‐up of hypertension	• Assessment of duration of drug action is not as good as ambulatory blood pressure
• Improve patient compliance	• May cause anxiety and too frequent monitoring
• Improve hypertension control rates	• Some patients adjust their own medications based on blood pressure readings
• Predict cardiovascular events	• Some patients are measured only while sitting at home and do not reflect daily activities
• Cost‐effectiveness	• Inequity due to the costs of technologies
• Better for long‐term BP control	• The digital divide