Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services Committee Chair Bernice Jenkins and Acting Chief John O’Donnell. (File photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)
Quinte area patients with certain chronic diseases are now able to join a prgram that will monitor their conditon remotely while they remain at home.
Hastings-Quinte emergency services is in the process of installing equipment in the homes of patients who have signed up for the service.
Patients enrolled in the program will be able to have their vital signs, including heart rate, blood pressure, weight and blood oxygen saturation levels, monitored remotely, in their homes, by community paramedics.
Acting chief of emergency services John O’Donnell says when a change is noticed paramedics will check with the patient.
Officials say remotely monitoring patients allows earlier interventions before their conditions escalate to the stage where they would normally have to be taken to the hospital.
The program, in partnership with Future Health Services, will run for 18 months.
The data collected during the study will be analyzed by Queens University.
