"Improving the
processes, and the
tools, will drive service
enhancements and
deliver economies
alongside the
traditional values of
patient/service-user
care."
Stewart Maxwell,
Chief
Executive,
Cerrus Ltd
Patient-centred care sees more and more acute and long-term conditions being managed in the home. To facilitate this trend, telecare monitoring equipment installed in the home, allows routine clinical checks to be performed by the patient themselves and, for example, the location of dementia sufferers to be monitored if they are prone to wandering.
Such systems are configured to activate appropriate alerts upon a number of clinical and non-clinical triggers such as threshold values for blood or respiratory analyses or the untoward activity of a dementia patient.
Adastra integrates with third-party telecare hardware in order to join up the escalation and routing of appropriate alerts and messages, automatically referring a case or an action to the correct service and the appropriate recipients. If a threshold pharmacological measure is exceeded, clinical intervention may be required in order to prevent a threatening episode. If a dementia patient is in distress, a neighbour or family member may need to be alerted. In a blue light situation, the emergency services will be alerted.
Such an integrated system provides non-intrusive monitoring that traps risk situations before they become threatening. The patient benefits from such preventative screening whilst the services and funding bodies are saved the unnecessary cost and effort of dealing with a situation that has already progressed too far.
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