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

• Improved accessibility and greater choice.

• Ability to manage conditions in home or community environment.

• Reduces transport or travel difficulties, carbon footprint, and cost.

• Reduces requirement for time off work, school and other responsibilities.

• Reduces further burdening to physical or mental health issues i.e. less exposure to infection risk, excessive travel, pain exacerbation.

Healthcare provider

• Improves ability to effectively monitor and triage patients.

• Saves time and travel attending clinics at different sites.

• Facilitates active patient involvement in care planning.

• Enables health care providers to work from their own home when needed, improving work-life balance.

Organisation

• Creates virtual capacity

• Aids integrated care

• Less hospital admissions

• 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