This short animation tells you more about how services and options provided through Connect Me work.
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Remote monitoring can help people better understand their conditions and encourage them to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing while reducing time spend travelling and attending appointments.
It also supports health and care services improve treatment and care planning by providing better availability of information to assist diagnosis and early intervention. Remote monitoring does not rely on the practitioner or person being available at the same time (i.e. Asynchronous).
Benefits for patients and clinicians include:
To find out more about our remote monitoring pathways, please select a service from the sidebar on the right hand side of the screen, or click the links below.
Asthma
Blood Pressure Service
Chronic Pain Management
Who is the Heart Failure Service for?
This service is being clinically designed and developed in support of Heart Failure patients, specifically aimed for:
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Newly Diagnosed Heart Failure Patients
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Patients with deteriorating/unstable Heart Failure symptoms
Who is the COPD Service for?
This service has been clinically designed to support the following patients:
NHS Scotland is scaling up the use of remote monitoring to manage blood pressure in line with Scottish Government priority for 2020/23.
People are already using remote monitoring to successfully submit blood pressure readings to their General Practice, saving them appointments and time away from work or caring responsibilities, while helping them keep their blood pressure at safe levels.
Where appropriate, patients are given a blood pressure monitor and instructions, but see these videos and others in our resources section.
Who is the Asthma Service for?
This service is being clinically designed and developed in support of Asthma patients, specifically aimed for: