Congratulations to ROMTech, winner of the Remote Patient Monitoring category in Newsweek's inaugural AI Impact Health Awards.

But Companion goes beyond monitoring. It keeps the whole recovery connected to the people who performed the surgery, and to the record that everything else depends on.

It's day nine.

A patient who had an outpatient procedure last week taps through a recovery check-in on their phone before breakfast. Pain, swelling, sleep, whether the evening dose got taken. One answer crosses a line the surgical team drew before discharge.

Someone on the care team gets the alert. It opens on the same screen as the operative note, the medication schedule and the discharge instructions. No second login. No hunting for context.

Is this the start of a complication, or just what day nine feels like? Nobody knows yet. But the person looking at it can see everything that happened in the operating room.

That's the part of monitoring that's easy to overlook. Collecting a signal is one job. Getting it to someone who knows the case is another.

Recovery is when patients are furthest from their care team, and it's when many problems first show up. The system increasingly recognizes this. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' CY 2026 fee schedule now recognizes remote monitoring over as few as 2 to 15 days of data in a 30-day period, the short windows when many post-procedure problems surface.

Companion is built around that window. Its recovery episodes run structured check-ins at thirty, sixty and ninety days, shaped by what the care team chose to watch for this patient and this procedure. Patients log medications and symptoms in English, Spanish or French. With their permission, supported vitals come in from their phone.

When an answer crosses a threshold the team set, the alert lands in the record the surgical team already uses, on the same encounter the surgery created. The recovery reads as the rest of the operation's story, not a separate file.

Monitoring also only works if the patient is still answering on day twelve. So Companion gives patients reasons to keep opening it: a daily care plan, medication schedules, secure messages to the care team, and a guardrailed assistant that helps them understand their instructions without ever diagnosing.

There's a quieter point here for anyone thinking about where lasting value sits in health technology. In most practices, the record of care and the record of billing live apart, and someone reconciles them after the fact. Here they share one encounter. The check-in the patient answered, the alert the team reviewed and the follow-up they documented are the same entries that show monitored care took place. Care and billing stay in sync because they're written once, in one place, and remain accessible to everyone who needs them, from the surgeon to the billing office to an auditor years later. Monitoring devices will keep changing. The record where care and accountability meet is what lasts.

No technology can promise a better outcome. What this design can do is shorten the distance between a patient noticing something and a clinician who knows the case seeing it, and make sure what happened next is never lost.

So start with the day-nine alert. Who sees it, how much of the patient's story comes with it, and does the record of that care hold together from the first check-in to the final claim?