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A Novel Digital Platform for a Monitored Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Published on: April 19, 2019
Telemedicine: interventional decentralised blood pressure telemonitoring (idTBPM)
Egbert Godehard Schulz1, Alexander Stahmann2, Claas Lennart Neumann1
1Centre of Nephrology Göttingen GbR (NZG), Germany.
Abstract:
Telemedicine comprises different methods of bridging a spatial distance between doctor, medical and care services and patients. These include mere data transmissions as well as alarm functionalities, consultations and therapy recommendations. A special form of telemedicine application is the interventional decentralised telemonitoring (idTM). Here the patient-practitioner relationship forms the basis for therapy control and optimisation using telemetrical medical data. To identify areas of indication of idTM, a detailed definition of transferred parameters, alarm conditions and intervention algorithms is required as a well as cost efficiency and feasibility studies. The quality of the telemedical application is determined by the medical quality of the derived actions.
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