Nursing homes need telemedicine. Patients are twice as likely to die or be readmitted within 30 days if they don’t see a practiced nurse or physician. Patients have to wait a long time to see a physician, 3.2 days on average. In rural areas that number drastically increases to 8.1 days. Many health issues can be treated if detected early, and measuring vital signs is a common way to detect any anomalies. Human error can cause illegible handwriting, data entry errors, and multiplicand errors when people take vital signs manually.
Using automated monitors eliminates human error, making more consistent readings, automatically document readings, and staff can be notified when the readings go outside set paramotors. Automated monitors are also more economic. A hospital with 100 beds could have costs reduced by $100,000 annually. When automated monitors can collect reading for nurses, nurses can pay more attention to patients, reducing death and readmission.
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