Telemonitoring - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 6

Hi, this is I'm Tom Bash from Cincinnati Children's Hospital. In a previous video, we introduced the concept of telemedicine and telehealth. In this video, we'll discuss telemonitoring as one of the main categories in telemedicine. With COVID-19, healthcare systems had to rethink the optimal delivery of healthcare services. Telemonitoring is the use of information technology to monitor patients at a distance. This monitoring involves recording vital signs, for example, blood pressure and pulse, and transmitting this information electronically, which allows the patient's medical team to track and monitor the patient's vitals on a regular basis, then use this data to identify signs of deterioration, intervene. Promptly and proven admission to hospital before the pandemic, data suggested that routinely monitoring hospitalized patients with continuous pulse oximetry and heart rate devices was associated with reduced mortality. In this study, which involved more than 100,000 patients discharged, early recognition of hypoxemia and respiratory depression were largely responsible for the observed decrease in mortality. Home telemonitoring. Emerged as a potential solution to reduce these costs. The evidence is mixed. According to this meta-analysis, healthcare costs showed ambiguous results, with 3 studies reporting an increase in healthcare costs, 3 studies reporting a reduction, and 4 studies reporting no significant differences. Healthcare cost reductions were realized through a reduction in hospitalization, whereas increases were caused by the high costs of the telemonitoring program or increased healthcare utilization. In this article, they use telemonitoring for hypertensive disease in pregnancy, and according to them, telemonitoring of hypertension in pregnancy is likely to become commonplace in the next 5 to 10 years, and research must be directed to ensure that it's used more safely before its general introduction into daily clinical practice. Raising women's awareness of their health condition could improve both pregnancy and long-term health outcomes. Download the Stayer app, follow us on social media, and subscribe on YouTube channel. And remember, knowledge should be free.