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What if keeping an eye on your patient was so simple and inexpensive that it could be used consistently, spanning the patient's journey, from acute care to home?''
Today, patient monitoring can be patchy, inconsistent and fragmented across the health continuum. While a person’s journey should follow a steady progression from acute care to recovery, typically the degree of monitoring they experience does not⁶. The intensive monitoring on an ICU drops dramatically to less frequent spot checks during rounding. After discharge from acute care, vital sign checks are infrequent, if they happen at all.
What if keeping an eye on your patient was so simple and inexpensive that it could be used consistently, spanning the patient’s journey, from acute care to home? It would be possible to establish baseline vital signs for an individual. It would be possible to build a picture of their lifestyle and activities, to use as context for accurate vital sign interpretation into the future. Couldn’t this approach help eliminate the toll and expense necessary because patient deterioration on the general ward is detected too late? And couldn’t such an approach help keep people with chronic diseases comfortable in their homes?