Home Monitoring Systems

Telehealth and Telemonitoring Provides Valuable In-Home Assistance

Telehealth uses telecommunications devices placed in patients' homes to take their vital signs every day, reminds the patient to take medications and answer simple questions about their condition in the comfort of their home.

The technology brings benefits to both patients and health care professionals. When patient’s vital signs are taken on a daily basis, irregularities can be caught before they become full-fledged problems. Nurses can be sent to patients’ homes at unscheduled times in addition to regular nursing visits, and based on the daily data, work directly with the patient’s doctor to adjust medication and diet regimens.

Telemonitoring lets health care professionals work more efficiently since the system allows one nurse to observe the clinical health of numerous patients at a time and effectively direct medical attention to those who need it. And, in many instances health care outcomes show improvement.