By connecting high-risk patients to portable electrocardiograms, which in some cases are built into smartphones, researchers can track the ups and downs of a patient’s disease throughout their lifetime. We all know that patients hearts race and their blood pressure rises even when they are sitting at home.
This influx of data from the Internet – connected devices could be a valuable tool for health systems to help them maximize resources and target interventions that benefit patients the most. Similar efforts are underway in other countries, where doctors and other providers are trying to remotely monitor patients to detect problems early and reduce costs and inefficiencies in the health-care system. This approach is similar to the use of clinical decision-making and support algorithms, where health professionals evaluate data for potential problems. Patients, carers and healthcare providers are alerted immediately if problems are identified.
Afyabora’s Online Medical Consultation Platform also provides a more efficient and cost-effective approach to monitoring patients’ health and health systems.
There are three main classifications of telemedical solutions that can be used by healthcare practices. Remote monitoring of patients, also known as telemonitoring, allows providers to track and monitor their patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Remote Patient Monitoring solutions provide remote operators with data that they can check and notify in near real time when measurements are not normal.
They allow chronically ill or at-risk patients to stay at home instead of being admitted to hospital or clinic. Besides preserving patients health through social isolation, doctors, insurers, and Medicare have found that RPM technology offers the ability to keep patients at home and safe while effectively monitoring their health, well-being, and medical needs.
While telemedicine is advancing in medical care, private practices are benefiting from remote monitoring of their patients. Remote patient monitoring technology is transforming the way healthcare is delivered in the Kenya and many other parts of the world. The technology still needs to be refined and the costs are high, but as these barriers are gradually being dismantled, remote surveillance is well on its way to becoming a core part of the future of preventive medicine.
We know that there is a growing shortage of doctors, and telemedicine can help to expand provider networks in new ways to increase access to healthcare. This emerging technology brings with it many networked tools that make life easier for care providers.
These tools can be used to reach a wide range of people in new ways, and they can use telemedicine to reach patients in new ways, such as through telemedicine, social media, or even on-site visits. Telemedicine may have been used as a means of reaching patients through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google + and other social networks.
The widespread adoption of digital health is likely to change the way health care is delivered, whether it is a health crisis or not. The COVID 19 pandemic has brought the need to engage patients effectively and provide effective care into focus. Telemedicine, social media, and other forms of remote patient monitoring can serve as trial cases and improve communication by collecting, storing, and using patient data for better medical decision-making.
Although this concept is not new, one of the most exciting changes is the increasing use of telemedicine and other forms of remote patient monitoring.
Wrapping Up
Proactive treatment of patients requires physicians to teach patients how to care for themselves during a hospital visit. By extending working hours and establishing a connection between the patient and his doctor in a remote location, doctors can expand their patient base outside an inpatient facility. The growing role of telemedicine and value – based reimbursement in the health system – has led hospitals and health systems to focus on interacting with their patients and engaging with self-care.