Monitor the health of your patients 24/7
You’ve probably noticed that many of your elderly or chronically ill patients resist the idea of living in an assisted care facility and want to stay where they’re comfortable – in their own home. Yet you have concerns about their health and safety living alone – they may forget to take their medication, ignore any indicators that their condition is getting worse, or suffer a fall and become incapacitated.
Our health care system is already overburdened. With the huge surge of baby boomers entering their ‘golden years’ and feeling the effects of aging, the situation is only going to get worse. Longer wait times and shorter visits may result in less than optimal care and potentially poorer clinical outcomes.
So what if you could monitor the health of your patients any time of day without having them step foot in your office? Well, now you can with VCare – a web-based patient management system that allows you to keep tabs on your patients’ weight, blood pressure, glucose levels and other health indicators by simply logging online. You’ll be able to catch any problems before they escalate, and intervene if necessary. And your patients will enjoy a better quality of life knowing that their health is being professionally monitored without frequent trips to the doctor’s office.
Using industry standard interfaces such as HL7, health assessments collected into the Vcare system can be automatically forwarded into clinical systems for a more inclusive electronic health record.
VCare was developed to help patients with chronic health conditions live autonomously while saving money that would otherwise be funneled into assisted living care. VCare technology is a customized system that includes a central tablet computer, video door phone, thermostats, security system and smart home software. Medical assessments taken by patients are automatically stored on the local computer and forwarded to a centralized database. A medical alert watch or pendant can also be supplied to notify the call centre if urgent medical attention is required.