St. Charles Home Health Tele-monitoring

Our state-of-the-art tele-monitoring services allow us to remotely monitor chronic disease patients in their homes. Tele-monitoring helps prevent unnecessary hospitalization by enabling faster follow-up and intervention. It also helps our home health care patients feel safer, more comfortable and empowered to manage their own health care.

Everyday, patients use our tele-monitoring devices to take their own vital signs measurements as prescribed by their physician, such as weight, blood pressure, pulse, glucose level, blood oxygen level, and/or ECG rhythm.

Besides taking their own health measurement, patients can also answer questions sent by their care manager, which may include general health assessment questions and/or targeted follow-up questions, and enter self-reported data as directed. The information is then automatically transmitted through an ordinary phone line via modem to our Clinical Review Software, which allows us to track, store data and generate reports. The combination of objective data and subjective responses enables the clinician to make more timely care decisions and helps prevent unnecessary hospitalizations.
For more information about tele-monitoring, please visit the Association of Telemedicine.