Palliative Care

Palliative care is defined as “care that aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of living and dying”. The goals for care to palliative clients are to increase autonomy and dignity, provide peace of mind, relieve pain and suffering, and support quality of life. While it takes many hours per week to provide the basic needs for someone dying at home, substantial discrepancies exist between what a patient currently receives and what the patient and family consider adequate. Healthanywhere’s product is used by healthcare providers to develop an outcome based care plan that is competent, compassionate, efficient and cost effective.

Key Features

• Ability to implement client specific care plan using pain and symptom management tools

• Touch sensitive, multilingual and multimedia interface designed with patient in mind

• Support for manual and wireless monitoring units

• Medication compliance reports for use by nurse and/or physician

• Real time, wireless and secure transfer of vital data to a central server

• Patient specific thresholds for vital data monitoring

• Nurse station with dashboard view of patient status

• Scheduled reminders for monitoring and medication

• Real time access to patient status by physician and family members

Benefits

• Real time monitoring of adverse symptoms and timely nurse intervention

• Real time video conferencing capability between the patient/caregiver at home and remote physician/specialist

• Early identification of complications for appropriate action and reduced ER visits

• Improved pain management with tools for assessment and medication reminders

• Better control of nausea leading to improved nutrition, optimal weight and energy levels

• Greater patient independence

• Reduced stress on family