During home visits your clinician relies on specific biophysical measurements to make critical patient assessments. What is important to measure? Temperature? Weight? BP? Pulse-ox? Spriometry? ECG? Glucose?
These measurements are real-time indicators of patient condition. They result in immediate treatment decisions.
Healthcom monitoring systems supply a steady flow of measurements, without your clinician traveling to the patient just to get them. Values are displayed on a secure website where they can be checked at any time; in fact, values over your defined limits cause an immediate alert (pager, fax, phone call, e-mail, etc.). Clinicians will still travel into homes for care delivery, but where they go, and (critically) when, become informed decisions.
The power of remote monitoring is simply this: Your clinicians know immediately when a patient is out of protocol and can choose the proper intervention ... phone call, visit, contacting a family member.
TIME is your fixed resource.
Healthcom monitoring systems give you DATA on which to decide where to spend TIME. For better CARE; earlier INTERVENTIONS; better OUTCOMES.