Abstract: A method for remotely monitoring one or more patients may include receiving a transmission of one or more patient assessments of current health of each patient, determining a trending index for each patient based on a baseline medical risk of the patient, a social exposure risk of the patient, and at least one patient assessment for the patient; and triaging the one or more patients according to medical risk associated with the contagious disease based on the trending index. The patient assessment may, for example, include an evaluation of at least one of: at least one symptom associated with a contagious disease and at least one vital sign associated with the contagious disease. The method and associated systems may be used, for example, to monitor and/or triage patients in the outpatient setting, to help manage patients who are at medical risk for a contagious disease.