Remote Health Monitoring
Remote health monitoring can harness digital technologies to provide wrap-around care to people in their own homes and reduce the need for hospital admission. For a person with complex health conditions, remote health monitoring can assist in better self-care, self-awareness and confidence to handle common exacerbations at home.
For health care providers, remote health monitoring solutions can provide a consistent, proactive approach to caring for people with the most complex medical and social needs in the community, rather than a reactive one that could end up in hospital admissions.
Benefits
The introduction of remote health monitoring within HSE services provides multiple potential benefits across a wide range of stakeholders.
Service user
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Improved accessibility and greater choice.
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Ability to manage conditions in home or community environment.
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Reduces transport or travel difficulties, carbon footprint, and cost.
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Reduces requirement for time off work, school and other responsibilities.
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Reduces further burdening to physical or mental health issues i.e. less exposure to infection risk, excessive travel, pain exacerbation.
Healthcare provider
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Improves ability to effectively monitor and triage patients.
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Saves time and travel attending clinics at different sites.
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Facilitates active patient involvement in care planning.
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Enables health care providers to work from their own home when needed, improving work-life balance.
Organisation
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Creates virtual capacity
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Aids integrated care
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Less hospital admissions
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Facilitates early discharge
We are actively seeking partners throughout the HSE that would be interested in working on projects in this area.
Please contact virtualhealth@hse.ie if you are interested in speaking with us.
Page Updated 10/01/2023