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Who Should Be Monitored?
- Patients at risk for repeat hospital admissions related to chronic
conditions
- Patients who can benefit from closer monitoring of vital signs
- Patients who could be candidates for early hospital discharge if
certain physiologic variables and lab values could be monitored and safely managed from
home
- Patients in need of close titration of medications such as ACE
inhibitors, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, anticoagulants, insulin,
home oxygen monitoring and others.
What can be monitored:
- Weight (heart failure and hypertension)
- Blood Pressure (heart failure and hypertension)
- Heart Rate (heart failure, hypertension, and atrial
fibrillation)
- Glucose (diabetes)
- Oxygen Saturation (heart failure,
hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- INR (atrial fibrillation, coagulation disorders, and
articifcial heart valves)*
- Spirometry (asthma)*
- Thermometry (post-surgical, oncology patients)*
*These functionalities are in development and are not available at
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The Home Health Telemanagement Service includes:
- Installation, maintenance, and user training of the Home Health
Monitor (HHM) in the patient's home
- Initial assessment with HHM staff and referring physician to
determine care plan and alarm parameters
- Initial and continued patient/family disease management and education
by the medical staff
- Daily data transmission to a central computer server with alarm
capability
- Availability of 24 hour 'as needed' transmissions with medical staff
and physician intervention
- Customized management of all data with scheduled reporting to
referring physicians
Anticipated Benefits of the HHM Telemanagement Service include:
- Reduced risks associated with shorter lengths of hospitalization
- Reduced frequency of recurrent ER visits and hospitalizations
- Promotion of patient compliance with disease specific treatments to
improve patient outcomes
- Improvement in patient perceived health related quality of life
For More Information Contact:
Nurse Coordinator - Home Health Telemanagement Service
University of Illinois at Chicago
840 S. Wood St. (M/C 787)
Chicago, Illinois 60612-7323
Phone: (312) 996-4409 Pager: (312) 839-0578
Fax: (312) 413-2948
E-mail: mbondm1@uic.edu
The Home Health Monitor is exclusively manufactured
and distributed by AvidCare Medical Devices. For more information on the Home Health
Monitor contact:
Bill Genthe, PhD.
Phone: (414)291-0844
E-mail: wgenthe@avidcare.com
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