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Our vision is to make telemonitoring a
standard of care, available to all clinicians and patients
who want to reduce the terrible health and economic burden
of poorly-managed chronic diseases. With this goal in mind,
all of our telemonitoring services are reliable, low in cost
and easy for patients and clinicians to use. We do not require
large investments in costly equipment, and we do not force
people using our service to adopt new and unfamiliar technologies.
How It Works
Our telemonitoring services enable patients to monitor
blood pressure & heart rate,
weight, blood glucose
and hemoglobin A1c at home, and
to send objective data to clinicians over the telephone. Patients
also report their subjective
symptoms and medication compliance.
After patients send data, they pick up the
telephone and an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system
tells them their recent readings, and congratulates them if
they are at goal. The IVR also asks questions about
symptoms and medication compliance.
Within minutes results appear on our patient
reporting website or directly interface with electronic medical
record or case management systems. LifeLink Monitoring
services are easily integrated into a wide range of clinical and IT
environments.
A primary care physician may elect to check the
website weekly to make treatment decisions for non-acute patients
with hypertension or diabetes. For a pregnant woman with
hypertension, blood pressure readings can be checked daily. A case
manager will have home monitoring data from congestive heart failure
patients on his or her computer within minutes of the patient
sending readings. This daily home surveillance frees the case
manager to focus on the sickest patients, secure in the knowledge
that daily telemonitoring provides rapid notification if another
patient is getting into trouble.
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