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METHODS: From March 2021 to February 2022, we recruited 800 cases of pregnant women received prenatal examination at the Anhui Province Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital. These pregnant women were randomly divided into two groups: the control group (n= 400), which was given traditional management, and the observation group (n= 400), which received remote monitoring technology on this basis. The two groups were compared with neonatal asphyxia, pregnancy outcomes, Edinburgh postnatal depression scale scores (EPDS), prenatal examination expenses and total time consumption. RESULTS: There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in pregnancy outcome and neonatal outcome (P&gt; 0.05). However, total EPDS score of 12.5% pregnant women in the observation group were higher than 12. The TPE group had significantly higher mean EPDS scores compared with the RFHRM group (7.79 \u00b1 3.58 vs 5.10 \u00b1 3.07; P&lt; 0.05). The results showed a significant difference in maternity expenses (2949.83 \u00b1 456.07 vs 2455.37 \u00b1 506.67; P&lt; 0.05) and total time consumption (42.81 \u00b1 7.60 vs 20.43 \u00b1 4.16; P&lt; 0.05) between the groups. 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