“Our Connected Cardiac Care program passed a big milestone recently. This program is designed to use remote monitoring technology (weight scale, blood pressure cuff, pulse oximeter and a table top computer) to deliver care to sick heart failure (CHF) patients in their home. The most exciting thing about it is that the technolgy becomes a teaching and adherence tool for the patients. They literally start to manage their own condition.
To help these patients stay healthy at home, their condition is being monitored daily by our telemonitoring nursing staff, who can reach out on a moments notice and coach a patient through any given illness issue. In fact, these nurses are often armed with standing orders from our doctors so that if a patient begins to deteriorate, the nurse can make some basic therapeutic changes over the phone and check in later in the day to see if the patient is doing better.”
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Joseph C. Kvedar, Healthcare IT News Blog, 23 February 2010
