The latest remote patient care solutions to be on show at Innovation EXPO

This is a chance for Expo visitors to see the latest remote patient care technology in action with real-time displays of telehealthcare in the patient home setting, as well seeing patient monitoring as it takes place.

The telehealthcare solutions that visitors to the EXPO will be able see, include the system that allows COPD patients like 71 year old John, to be managed more effectively. Over a period of time John had adopted his own coping strategy which meant that when he was feeling more breathless than usual, he would panic and call 999. Once telehealthcare was provided, he went from 8 emergency admissions to just one in a 6 month period. At the beginning he would transmit his vital signs data two to three times a day, but as he became more confident that his breathlessness was not necessarily related to low oxygen saturations, his transmission rate decreased to once a day. His anxiety scores over six months decreased from 22 to 12.

The EXPO, which is the largest health and social care event in Europe, provides an unparalleled opportunity for businesses to interact directly with key health and social care professionals including decision makers, as well as those who directly provide patient and community-based care. It is also a vital forum for social care professionals to link up with healthcare experts and explore opportunities for innovative changes in the approach to long-term care and the management of patients with chronic conditions.

The NHS currently spends some 70% of its annual budget providing healthcare for people coping with long term, chronic conditions such as COPD. The services provided by organisations like Tunstall Healthcare are already helping the NHS better manage its resources in this critical area. This means not just direct healthcare in terms of monitoring, medication and analysis of data for example, but also to assist a patient’s ability to continue living in their own home and a decreased reliance on, or need for, unplanned primary care interventions. Improved self-management and disease education are also important aspects of remote patient care services.

This type of telehealthcare solution means that organisations can integrate health and social care workflow and allows patients care to be managed seamlessly and consistently through one system, increasing the efficiency of primary and social care resources and providing direct cost-savings to the NHS.

Patients benefit from increased quality of care, provided around the clock seven days a week. The productivity of the care teams improves as they are able to care for a larger pool of patients and emergency events are prevented with better monitoring and improved medication compliance. The increased take up and implementation of innovative telehealthcare solutions is an important step to being able to deliver first class healthcare services whilst helping people with long term conditions live more independently.

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