Home Health Business Quarterly: Web-based system connects remote patients, professionals
Home Health Business Quarterly
Web-based system connects remote patients, professionals
Panasonic of Secaucus, NJ, has created a web-based tele-homecare system linking patients and their doctors or other health care professionals by telephone service over the Internet. The system allows remotely located patients to measure their vital signs and other physiological information — including blood pressure, pulse rate, blood sugar, oxygen saturation, and weight — and quickly transmit the data to a health care professional.
The tele-homecare system includes a patient terminal, network server software, and doctor terminal software. The patient terminal measures patient vital signs using a thermometer, blood pressure/pulse cuff, blood sugar machine, oxygen saturation sensors, a stethoscope, an electrocardiograph device, and a scale, and it reminds patients of their schedule to measure vital signs and other activities. It automatically notifies the health care practitioner if the patient’s pre-set maximum or minimum level has been exceeded.
The network server informs the patient which sensor to use to monitor which vital sign at a particular time, based on the individual plan drawn up by the health care professional. The doctor terminal software enables a health care professional to browse and observe patient data stored on the server and transmit medical advice and information to the patient via e-mail or videophone.
Panasonic has tested the system with Focused Health Solutions Inc. of Northbrook, IL, a provider of customized health services for the self-insured employer market, and with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, a division of the integrated health care delivery system that serves the veterans of Connecticut and southern New England.
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