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SymlConnect: Digital remote patient monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond Healthcare organisations are facing increasing challenges with their already outstretched resources and budgets, such as higher rates of comorbidity, elderly care and mental health issues. Regular monitoring of all patients is mandatory for preventative actions and maintaining patients’ wellbeing. There are national concerns around unmanageable patient-facing appointment needs and lack of monitoring consistency. Monitoring is essential for the patients as well as the practices to achieve their target outcomes and aims. The situation is further impacted with the social distancing in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in severe backlogs. It is widely acknowledged that ‘Digital Transformation’ is the solution. However, initiating this journey for ‘change’ simultaneously with day to day
screenings, smoking status, clinical history, medication review, postoperative monitoring and patient feedback. Patients still provide information on paper, while much of the clinical data capture is done by the clinicians during their consultations.
responsibilities is challenging. SymlConnect has been working with specialists and patients to ascertain ways of minimising the efforts of implementing digital change, operationally. Data capture is an integral part of patient care to support long-term conditions for prudent outcomes, including at-risk
An exclusive, interactive, intelligent analytics tool offers instantaneous graphical accounts, supporting speedy identification of clinical needs to initiate prompt actions according to priority. Relevant timely interventions consequently deliver better time management, preventative actions and valueadded outcomes all round.
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