Remote Health Monitoring become an inevitable part of today’s health care delivery
\nsystem. Remote Health Monitoring is also called Remote Patient Monitoring. Remote
\nHealth Monitoring is beneficial to both the patient as well as healthcare professional
\nbecause it helps to monitor the health condition outside clinical setting, for example,
\nhome. So the technology plays a tremendous role in decision making, support, and
\nhealth education when it comes to delivering quality care to the patients with chronic
\ndiseases where hospital stay is not possible for long time. Even though it is widely
\nused in managing patients with long term care, it can be used in patients or
\nsuspected cases who needs social isolation and to be in quarantine. The new novel
\ncoronavirus COVID-19 lead to new innovations in health care and people are
\nadvised to follow social distance measures. In such situations of pandemic, remote
\nhealth monitoring is more beneficial. Healthcare professionals can collect data about
\nhis or her condition, can check for signs and symptoms of disease, can educate the
\npatient regarding precautionary measures, diet, medications etc\u2026
\nRemote health monitoring is used globally and it became popular because of
\nCOVID-19. Remote health monitoring is easy to implement because most of the
\npeople have smartphones and access to internet.
\nBenefits of Remote Health Monitoring
\nMajor Benefits of Remote Health Monitoring as follows
\nEasy Access to healthcare: RHM helps the health professional like doctors and
\nnurses to treat more number of patients. Patients don\u2019t have to wait to see their
\ntreating physician, instead they can make their booking for the convenient time to
\nsee their doctor to convey their problems related to health<\/p>\n
Cutting down the cost related to Healthcare: Since the patient is at home the cost
\nrelated to hospitalization can be avoided. This will be more helpful to the people who
\ndon\u2019t have an insurance coverage.
\nIncreased Quality of Care: Remote Health Monitoring ensures better quality of
\ncare for its beneficiaries. It helps to discuss their health care issues to their treating
\ndoctor and nurses, if needed a multi-disciplinary team can involve patient care. For
\nexample, after a complex surgery patient is sent to home and regular health
\nmonitoring is needed by the multi-disciplinary team to ensure quality care to that
\nindividual.
\n27×4 Support for the patient: Sometimes patients needed support to take
\nmedications, to manage health emergency at home. For example, a patient is getting
\nmedication as continuous infusion for his chronic pain at his home and during the
\ncourse of infusion patient became restless. This can be conveyed to the healthcare
\nteam miles away from home and relevant measures can be taken after evaluating
\npatient\u2019s condition.
\nHealth Education: Flow of communication between an individual and healthcare
\nprofessionals plays a major role in treating and managing healthcare issue. A good
\nand healthy communication alleviates anxiety and depression among patients
\nrelated to annoying health related problems. Patients will have hesitations to discuss
\ntheir problems in a clinical settings due their anxiety. They forget to discuss the very
\nessentials things in hospitals. But in remote health monitoring setting they will be
\nmore comfortable to discuss their problems.
\nCOVID-19 pandemic in some countries put the healthcare delivery system in risk.
\nThey don\u2019t have enough healthcare resources like Personal Protective Equipment\u2019s<\/p>\n
(PPE) and N95 masks, hospital beds, ventilators, and pulse oximeters. The number
\ndeath due to COVID-19 is increasing day by day. It\u2019s believed that, it happened
\nbecause of lack of monitoring for the signs and symptoms, not following the advises
\ngiven by the government and healthcare professionals, lack of social distancing
\netc\u2026
\nThere are many mobile APPs available in the world to tackle COVID-19, it helps to
\nmonitor the individual, track his or her travel history, signs and symptoms,
\neffectiveness of medications that he or she takes.
\nThe health care as well information technology has developed to a great extent .
\nToday it\u2019s possible for a physician to check the pulse rate of a patient, can go
\nthrough blood investigation reports, x-ray etc\u2026 miles away from patient\u2019 home.
\nDoctor can advise the patient if any treatment modality is needed, titrate his or her
\nmedication and can inform about further follow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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