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Digital home care provides exciting opportunities to overcome the difficulties of distance and lack of access in the delivery of health care. This chapter describes experiences encountered by “Connecting Clients 2 Care”, a project designed to implement Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and conducted by Loddon Mallee Health Alliance in Victoria, Australia. RPM is discussed in terms of the need for the project, objectives, equipment and systems used, implementation, maintenance of the project and evaluation. To enable the experiences of this project to be described from multiple viewpoints, two case studies are included from clients who used RPM. Benefits have included: increased client and carer confidence in managing and interpreting symptoms, increased quality of life, increased healthy behaviour, decreased nursing visits and travel time with resultant efficiencies and increased capacity for agencies to cater for clients that would not otherwise have been catered for.
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Aikman, H., Coppin, P. (2009). Digital Homecare Experiences: Remote Patient Monitoring. In: Yogesan, K., Bos, L., Brett, P., Gibbons, M.C. (eds) Handbook of Digital Homecare. Series in Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01387-4_15
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