Home // eTELEMED 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine // View article

Home Monitoring Service for Critically Ill Children

Authors:
Edith Maier
Pascale Baer-Baldauf
Claudia Pedron
Ulrich Reimer

Keywords: eHealth; digital health; home care; remote monitoring; support service

Abstract:
Although the benefits of remote patient monitoring (home monitoring) are widely recognized, there has been no large-scale integration into regular healthcare delivery. The pa-per describes a home monitoring service aimed at severely ill children. A smart algorithm detects if parameters have ex-ceeded pre-defined thresholds and thus may imply a critical sit-uation. The service has been developed by a team of medical, technological and research partners and is offered by profes-sional nurses employed by an ambulatory care association. The paper describes the technical solution of the monitoring service, its infrastructure, and relevant processes as well as its integra-tion into the healthcare market. The paper finishes with outlin-ing possible future developments that could help promote the uptake of such a service.

Pages: 16 to 21

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: July 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-872-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021