We are encouraging patient self management, how can TouchPointCare assist us in this effort?
Through active Telehealth participation, the patient is learning the importance of monitoring certain symptoms important to their health. In addition, if a patient needs to monitor vital signs such as their weight, they are learning to do so with the nurses assistance on a simple digital scale that they probably own, and that will remain with them even after they are discharged. This contrasts with patients who are taught about self monitoring while using more expensive internet connected equipment, which when they are discharged, will probably be taken away from the patient, thus leaving the patient without the tools they have been trained with.
