Telehealth keeps patients out of hospital in News and Events
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09 February 2009
Treating patients in hospital is expensive and hospital is not the place where patients want to be. Patients prefer to remain in their own homes where their quality of life is greater and support costs are much less. The author describes how Swindon Primary Care Trust installed monitoring systems in homes so that nurses could manage their patients remotely. Success in Swindon has prompted a new look at the extension of telehealth.
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