VANCOUVER – This week, Telus Health announced it has expanded its Home Health Monitoring (HHM) solution in British Columbia so nurses and other healthcare providers there can digitally monitor more patients remotely while they recover from Covid-19.
Launched in partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Health and local health authorities, the digital health dashboard enables healthcare providers to track symptoms and provide medical help for more patients as they recover outside of hospitals and in their own homes.
Through any mobile device, the program sends daily prompts to the patient to report things like their temperature, physical symptoms and overall health condition so their clinicians can keep track remotely.
This also allows healthcare providers to view information for multiple patients simultaneously, enabling them to more effectively manage the vitals of a larger number of patients so they can quickly identify those patients in need of urgent care.
Telus Health’s HHM has been in use in B.C, since 2013 to remotely monitor thousands of patients in the province living with chronic conditions such as heart failure, diabetes and respiratory diseases.
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