The final cardiology care cycle pillar is Home Healthcare. At ACC 2010, we will highlight our solutions for Chronic Heart Disease Management, illustrating how we help extend the boundaries of healthcare into the patient’s home. Because healthcare should be delivered wherever it's best for the patient.
Quality care in the comfort of home.
Our at-home solutions, like HeartStart Home, offer a number of benefits including effective care of chronically ill patients. Home solutions:
- Help improve quality of life and clinical outcomes.
- Provide patients easy access to clinical counseling, either directly from clinicians and nurses or via call centers.
- Offer financial advantages for both the care providers like you and insurers.
Our unique portfolio of products for home care allows caregivers to manage chronic cardiac patients holistically to address important co-morbidities such as sleep breathing disorders.
Philips Remote Cardiac Services* extends the reach of the cardiology practice with solutions that help clinicians diagnose arrhythmias, provide long-term remote monitoring of patients with pacemakers and ICDs, and support self testing for patients on anti-coagulation therapies.
*Available only in the U.S.A.
Philips Lifeline medical alert technology* allows at-risk cardiac patients to call for help with the press of a button.
*Available only in the U.S.A. and Canada.
Philips Telehealth Solutions* uses patient-friendly, wireless measurement devices to remotely monitor the vitals of heart failure and post-surgery patients, resulting in documented reductions in re-hospitalizations and ER visits, enhanced clinical outcomes, and lower overall costs of care.
*Available only in the U.S.A.
Philips Respironics offers comprehensive solutions to diagnose, treat, and remotely monitor sleep-breathing disorders (including both obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea). These conditions have been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and represent an important co-morbidity in cardiac patients. Clinical evidence has shown that treating sleep disorders in cardiac patients may improve their cardiac condition.
Philips Respironics integrates information two ways:
- It features deep integration of diagnostic products (Alice) and CPAP treatment devices (Respironics CPAP). This allows you to plug in and connect Respironics CPAP Bi-level or AutoSero Ventilation to any Respironics diagnostic device to provide the best treatment.
- Remote confirmation of therapeutic benefit from PAP treatment and patient compliance can be carried out via a website (Encore Pro). Combining core monitoring and treatment technologies into one highly sophisticated unit can provide the very best treatment possible for complicated patients, and a simpler way to manage their sleep-disordered breathing.