Health Care Solutions: Remote Patient Monitoring:
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The TeleMedCare Service offers flexibility to health professionals to manage patients in their own home. For the first time, professionals are able to extend their formal standards of care, into the informal settings of the home. |
Through the use of patient self-help and self-care tool kits, patients are:
- Better informed,
- Positive about self-care and self-help, and
- More confident and competent in adhering to the agreed therapeutic regimen
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Care givers are:
- More informed about their patient’s health status
- Able to engage with better informed patients
- Supported systematically in the provision of their health services
- Able to attain superior health outcomes for their patients
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What is it? What has it got?
The TeleMedCare service:
- Records clinical indicators of a patient’s health status
- Provides feedback to the patients
- Graphical presentation of patient trends and recordings
- Gives access to health information at a time when the care givers need it
Features
- ECG – single lead
- Sphygmanometer
- Spirometer
- Oximeter
- Clinical thermometer
- Clinical weight scales – sensitive to 50g
- Medication management programme
- Personalised patient education resources
- Secured remote access
- Web interface
- Questionnaire for patient profiling
- Record of ambient conditions
Who would use this?
- Private institutional service providers = Insurance Agencies, Private Home Health Care services are examples
- Public Sector Health service providers = Public hospitals, areas health services, Transitional Care providers and public trusts are examples
- Private individuals – athletes, elderly people away from their families.
What would be the benefits of using the TeleMedCare service?
For the health professional:
- Comprehensive collaboration between specialist carer and general practitioners
- Improves the quality of clinical outcomes
- Contains the unit cost of care
- Interactive management between health carers, the patient and family members
- Dramatic improvement in the patient’s understanding of their health condition
- Shared Care programming
- Readily available longitudinal health record – either electronic or hardcopy
- Breakthrough health improvement for patients
- Continuity of health support and care
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For the patient:
- Graphical interaction between system and patient – highlighting of patient’s progress and activity impacts
- Peace of mind for patients and family members
- ‘Real time’ viewing by the patient of their own health status
- Confidence in their own health regimen and willingness to adhere to programme
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