Over the past three years,Ā seven Santeon hospitalsĀ have worked together extensively to make remote care possible through digital technologies. Recent international publications by UT PhD candidate Charell Jansen show how home monitoring for heart failure can be scaled up and embedded sustainably. Based on data from the seven Santeon hospitals, Jansen examined not only the technology behind digital care but also how such care can be organised on a large scale and sustainably embedded in existing care processes. The studies were published in the European Heart Journal ā Digital Health and JACC: Advances.
What if patients only came to the hospital for truly necessary medical procedures and everything that could be done at home was actually done at home? "Heart failure leads to around 34,000 hospital admissions in the Netherlands every year," says Jansen. "With an ageing population, that pressure is only increasing. If care that does not require hospital treatment can be delivered at home, we can make the system more future-proof."
From hospital to home
For her publications, she investigated how seven Santeon hospitals implemented an app for home monitoring of heart failure in their cardiology departments,Ā integrated into existing clinical protocols. Representatives from the seven Santeon hospitals formed aĀ so-called heart failure core team, which reported to a medical board. The implementation was done step by step, and processes were continuously improved.
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