DigitalHands is a remote monitoring solution offered by Siemens Healthineers. DigitalHands responds to the ever-changing challenges of healthcare by offering patients advanced care while saving healthcare costs. With flexible and interactive questionnaire designer together with advanced thresholding engine DigitalHands remote monitoring solution offers more comprehensive picture of the patient’s health than the measurement results alone.
The DigitalHands platform is well tested to increase self-care for patients with a broad range of diseases like asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Diabetes and mental health, high risk pregnancies and many more.
The solution itself is agnostic to conditions and can be configured to any protocol for any situation. This empowers clinicians to build and implement any protocol across any number of indicators. The platform generates patient intervention alerts on non-compliant answers and measurements to responsible monitoring staff. The thresholding engine together with questionnaires is a crucial part of the clinical decision support for setting up essential sustainable service.
DigitalHands is a ready solution that has been used in the Nordic countries for almost a decade. The remote monitoring solution can be flexibly integrated into different national systems.
Remote care
Remote care is a rapidly developing and versatile area, where the need for services will grow strongly. Siemens Healthineers is a pioneer in digital healthcare services, and we are constantly expanding the offering of our solutions and related services. The DigitalHands remote monitoring solution offers rapid and customer-driven development of healthcare services.
A turnkey solution for Remote Patient Monitoring
One important aspect of the DigitalHands platform is the handling of medical equipment relevant for Remote Patient Monitoring.
For the patient devices we can deliver preconfigured kits, consisting of a case filled with all devices the patient needs to participate in a remote monitoring program. The kit consists of a tablet computer including mobile data subscription and a tailored bundle of measurement devices. This can be blood pressure, temperature, blood glucose, body scale, peak flow meter, activity tracker and other relevant devices for proper monitoring of the condition.
All devices are delivered pre-installed and fully operational. Ordering and managing patient kits can be easily done through the DigitalHands logistics portal.
Advantages of the remote monitoring solution
For a patient
The DigitalHands remote monitoring solution enables the patient to monitor their own quality of life, self-measure and document the answers. The user can also receive immediate feedback on their own health status and the results are displayed to the healthcare provider in real time.
The patient’s user interface is easy to use and user-friendly which meets accessibility requirements. Interactive questionnaires and the threshold engine are one of the cornerstones of the solution, ensuring that all measurements can be evaluated in a clinically relevant context.
The remote monitoring solution improves the interaction between the patient and the healthcare provider and enables quick communication if needed. It is easy to include several monitoring plans (etc. CHF or diabetes) to the DigitalHands platform and the user can manage them easily from the same platform.
For healthcare provider
The main benefit of Siemens Healthineers’ remote monitoring solution is to offer patients better control of their own health and to improve the monitoring costs of healthcare providers.
With the help of the DigitalHands solution, large numbers of patients can be monitored effortlessly, and the measurement results visible in real time help to detect worsening phases of the patient’s illness in time.
The system automatically classifies patients based on set threshold values, making it easier to assess the urgency of treatment. Versatile and easily editable questionnaires and thresholds can be adapted to the different needs of user groups, freeing up experts’ time. The application also enables video consultations.
Functionalities
Remote monitoring
The solution can be easily modified and used to remotely monitor many different user groups.
Advanced question machine
DigitalHands-remote monitoring question machine is comprehensive and easy to use. It is possible to create interactive question paths to cater the needs of different user groups.
Video consultation
The solution also enables video consultations between a patient and healthcare workers. This saves time and decreases the amount of unnecessary appointments.
