Rationale for home monitoring

The rationale for home monitoring arises from the emerging need for better management of increasing Long Term Conditions in the population, especially those with hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, CHD, asthma, obesity and COPD. In recent policy documents urging governments of the world to act, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 80% of the global burden of disease will come from chronic diseases by 2020. For example, almost 40% of the developed world’s population have hypertension and as a direct consequence, are at increased risk of stroke, the largest single cause of severe disability. Cardiovascular and related diseases such as hypertension and stroke, are responsible for 30% of all deaths in the developed world.
As consumerism in healthcare builds, inconsistent services as currently supplied by public healthcare organisations such as the NHS will become increasingly unacceptable as we will all expect to receive good health supervision by one means or another.
Clinical trials have proven that continuous monitoring of essential parameters is crucial to prevent and manage chronic disease. However, the scale of the task is such that the present healthcare systems cannot can provide this level of monitoring. Due to the routine nature of the monitoring and management tasks involved across a large number of patients, automation must be applied to sufferers in their homes, to achieve any degree of viability. doc@HOME® provides automated monitoring of essential parameters – at home - to enable the optimised management of chronic diseases with the minimum of routine professional medical intervention.