Home health care and remote patient monitoring are components of healthcare that have become increasingly important in the last few decades. There are many reasons for this, including, population pyramids have changed significantly over the last few decades, especially in developed countries. The aged population is growing rapidly, and their life expectancy is at an all-time high. This population shift raises the need for an increased capacity to provide continuous, personalized, and optimized care to the aging population who tend to have chronic diseases. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare workers to connect remotely with their patients living with chronic illnesses so familiarity with remote monitoring devices have increased.
To be able to optimally monitor their patients remotely, healthcare providers need to rely on home health monitoring devices. There are many devices and all serve a variety of functions, such as blood pressure monitoring, blood glucose tracking, oxygen saturation monitoring, and medication tracking.
Advances in mobile and internet technologies and other services have made it possible for these devices to record patients’ information and transmit it to their providers. The readings from these devices can then be used to monitor trends and changes in the patient’s condition.
How Home Health Monitoring Devices Improve Care Optimization
Home health monitoring devices help healthcare providers optimize the care given to their patients in various ways. For example, for patients in rural or remote areas, those with limited mobility, and those without access to reliable transportation, integrating the use of home health monitoring devices into their care plan enables continuity and optimization of their care. These devices bypass the difficulties or hassle of getting a doctor’s appointment or urgent care, so that their providers can easily monitor their condition. This leads to improved and uninterrupted patient care. It also helps patients save money by reducing transportation and hospitalization costs.
Another way these devices optimize care is by providing data on the patient’s health status between visits. This presents a clearer picture of their condition and helps the provider make better-informed decisions on health management. Home health monitoring devices also enable providers to quickly identify sudden, acute changes in their patient’s health, enabling them to intervene early enough to prevent patient morbidity.
Numerous platforms and applications have been built to collect and collate the data from different kinds of home health monitoring devices. By having access to this data, providers can monitor health trends over time and discover how patients function with varying treatments. This enables them to demonstrate short-term outcomes, avoid long-term adverse effects, and improve care efficiency over time.
Patients also have access to these platforms and by being able to track their own progress and take and log their measurements, they are empowered to be active participants in maintaining their health.
The Dignio Solution
Dignio is passionate about impacting healthcare systems and the lives of patients globally. They develop solutions that make healthcare more sustainable for providers and patients. Dignio believes that home health care providers can optimize the way they work by using remote patient monitoring technology. To help with this, they have developed a Connected Care Solution. There are dedicated applications for patients and physicians, with each application optimized for the target population. This improves collaboration between all members of the health team, thus optimizing care.
Dignio Connected Care is integrated with over twenty devices through standardized APIs. The results from these devices can be transmitted to a connected device via Bluetooth and then sent to the clinician app.
The solution also helps optimize medication delivery. Patients will be notified when it is time to take their medication; if they do not take it, the care team will be notified via the application, and they can reach out to the patient to determine the reason.
Conclusion
Patient monitoring using home monitoring health devices helps healthcare providers optimize how they work and provide care to their patients. The Dignio Connected Care solution helps streamline this process.
Here at Dignio, we help home health organizations leverage remote patient care technology in order to add greater value to patients and their caregivers, and drive greater profit margins within the home health organization.
If you’d like to see how we can help home health make a greater positive impact in their communities, feel free to reach out to our Connected Care team today!