July 27, 2026
MovementRx was featured this week in Meditech Today’s roundup, Digital Health Success Stories: Lessons from Patient Care Improvements. Our entry leads the piece, and I want to expand on the idea behind it, because it runs against most of what the digital health industry says about itself.
Here’s the thing. When we started tracking home exercise adherence in physical therapy, the baseline numbers were rough. Most published estimates put adherence somewhere between 30 and 40 percent. Our own early data looked the same. Patients left the clinic with a plan, and by the second week most of them had quietly stopped.
The standard industry answer is more technology. Better app. Smarter reminders. Gamification. We tried versions of all of it.
None of it moved the number much.
What moved the number was people. When we paired real-time monitoring with scheduled clinician check-ins, adherence climbed past 70 percent and stayed there. A remote PTA reviewing the data and reaching out. A message that a human being wrote because the data showed three missed sessions. That was the mechanism. The app was just the delivery vehicle.
Why This Matters If You Run a Practice
Remote therapeutic monitoring gets sold two ways. One version promises automation: set it up, let the software chase your patients, collect the billing codes. The other version, the one we built MovementRx around, treats the software as a window into the days between visits, and puts a clinician on the other side of that window.
The first version disappoints. Not because the software is bad, but because a notification is easy to ignore and a person is not. Patients don’t stick with a program because their phone buzzed. They stick with it because someone they trust noticed they stopped.
Honestly, this shouldn’t surprise anyone who has practiced for a while. Adherence has always been a relationship problem. RTM just gives the relationship better information to work with.
The Numbers
Industry baseline home program adherence: roughly 30 to 40 percent. MovementRx patients with monitoring plus human outreach: above 70 percent. Same exercises. Same patients. The difference is attention between visits.
You can read the full Meditech Today feature, including entries from twelve other digital health teams. Our section is titled Unite Checks with Human Outreach.
If you’re a practice owner thinking about RTM and want to talk through what the human layer actually costs and returns, reach out. That conversation is the one most vendors skip.
Andrew Gorecki, DPT, FAFS is the co-founder and CEO of MovementRx and owner of Superior Physical Therapy in Traverse City, Michigan.