Scalable TeleHealth and Virtual Wardss

The ability to transmit valid clinical information from a citizens home to a madical facility - is not novel - and ever since the arrival of wireless technology, more and more medical devices have been made available for home use.

Despite the easy access to such medical devices - we have yet to see Virtual Care become a widely accepted and normal way of providing Healthcare to people.

During the Pandemic, it became abundantly clear, that Virtual Care was NOT available and ALL scrambled to establish Videobased services as a stop-gap measure. It helps on the distancing issue, but it doesn’t scale well - so there is not much help to find in Video based Consultation.

There are two major strategies that can be applied in Virtual care.

1. Remote Patient Monitoring

2. Virtual Wards

Ad1. Patients with a diagnosis or conditions that need to be tracked are provided with medical devices and daily they will submit data (measurements and Questionnaires) about their Health to the Healthcare provider.

Ad2. Patients are moved from a hospital bed to their own home and provided with Medical Devices that continuously monitor their Vital Signs and feed the data to the Healthcare Staff in a Virtual Ward,that monitors the live stream of data and takes action if the data show that the patient needs intervention.

Author(s): Henrik L. Ibsen

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