Virtual health remote monitoring for home health services

At Aurora Health at Home, our services extend beyond home visits. With the addition of virtual health, our free in-home remote monitoring system, nurses review your vital signs and symptoms each day. Gathering information between visits lets us address changes before they become concerns.

Stay healthy at home with remote monitoring

People using our remote monitoring program typically spend less time in the hospital. With trained virtual health nurses monitoring your signs and symptoms, you can rest easy at home knowing we have your care covered.

Benefits of remote monitoring

When your doctor or home health nurse recommends supplementing your regular visits with remote monitoring, our team gains valuable insight into your needs. Benefits of this service include:

• Specialty programs for cardiac care: For people managing a chronic heart condition at home or recovering from heart surgery, we offer specialty programs built on remote monitoring. These programs include:
  • Diuretic Heart Failure Program: If you’re at high risk of heart failure, we closely monitor your symptoms. If your provider decides you need diuretic medication, we can treat you at home.
  • Rapid Recovery Program: Following open heart surgery, our virtual health team gathers information between nurse visits and works with your doctor to adjust your medications accordingly. We get you to outpatient cardiac rehabilitation as soon as you are strong enough.
• Health coaching and education: Virtual health is more than just monitoring vital signs. Our nurses teach you to interpret your readings (such as weight and blood pressure). They also coach you on when to call a doctor, call your home health services nurse or go to the emergency department.
• Personalized monitoring: We customize our monitoring to track only the vital signs that relate to your specific diagnosis. We also personalize the symptom assessment so that every question pertains to you.

What you can expect with remote monitoring

At your initial home health services visit, your nurse determines whether remote monitoring is a good fit for you. If you choose to participate, your monitoring equipment arrives after your initial assessment.

Turning on the equipment alerts our virtual health team. A nurse calls you immediately to provide instructions and answer any questions. Each day, you’ll collect information about your health in 2 different ways:

1. Take your vital signs. In less than 3 minutes a day, you’ll use the easy-to-operate equipment to collect vital signs such as:
   • Heart rate
   • Blood pressure
   • Oxygen level
   • Body weight
   • Temperature
2. Assess your symptoms. Your tablet lights up each morning, prompting you to answer questions about your symptoms.

If your vital signs or symptoms cause concern, a virtual health nurse contacts you and arranges any additional care you may need.

Your remote monitoring tools

Your remote monitoring equipment is easy to use and ready to go right out of the box. Through a wireless connection, the provided electronic tablet registers your vital signs as they’re taken. Virtual health nurses access the information through a secure connection to the tablet.

Depending on your needs, your remote monitoring equipment may include:

• Tablet computer: You use a small tablet for your daily symptom assessment. Simply plug it in and turn it on.
• Blood pressure cuff: The cuff is automatic and battery-operated. Just slip it on your upper arm and press start.
• Pulse Ox: This device monitors your oxygen level and heart rate.
• Digital scale: The scale has a large display and reads the result aloud.

Support when you need it most

If you or a loved one needs hospice care, our program offers the benefits of virtual health, with a focus on comfort. Rather than monitor vital signs, the program relies on your daily symptom assessment. Hospice-trained virtual health nurses use that information to provide the support you need between your regular hospice visits.

Advantages of our virtual health hospice program include:

• Real-time support helps you manage medication, pain and other medical concerns. Having this support often provides security and eases emotional issues such as anxiety.
• Virtual health nurses communicate with the hospice team to bring in appropriate help, such as a social worker, nurse or chaplain.
• In addition to your regularly scheduled, in-person hospice nurse visits and daily monitoring, a virtual health nurse is available 7 days a week to talk about your care.

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