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PCNOK Overview
Pcnok (Patient Care Network), in digital health, represents a fundamental solution to support the chronically ill and the elderly both in the health, care and rehabilitation fields and to support the ageing of the population.
With social distancing, the limitations of movement due to the covid emergency and the consequent increase in pathologies related to sedentary lifestyle, the need for widespread use of online solutions to remotely monitor fragile subjects is even more felt.
What is a Patient Care Network?
Patient Care Networks is a technological solution that allows you to remotely monitor the health status of patients at home thanks to devices connected to the network and systems for sharing the clinical parameters detected.
It is aimed at healthcare professionals who treat de-hospitalized or chronically ill patients, often elderly, who need to follow a long-term therapy and therefore must be monitored over time.
The parameters detected by the patient in complete autonomy, for example, through wearable devices, are automatically transmitted to an operations centre and shared with the care team in real-time, allowing the evolution of the disease to be constantly monitored.
The remote monitoring, constant and proactive, allows verifying the appropriateness of the therapy and the correct intake of drugs. In the event of anomalies in the parameters detected, the system automatically alerts the healthcare staff, who can intervene quickly and adapt the treatment.
Advantages and benefits of PCNOK
For the patient:
The patient feels safe and cared for from home. Thanks to connected care, he is stimulated to follow the therapy and adopt correct lifestyles. In addition, he is more autonomous in managing his condition.
For family members
Family members and caregivers can count on the constant supervision of the health conditions of their relative by the health personnel, with the certainty that any acute or anomalies will be promptly detected and dealt with.
For healthcare professionals
Monitoring the parameters at home allows health workers to operate in smart working as from the hospital operations centre and, at the same time, monitor more patients.
For the SSN
Patient Care Network makes it possible to reduce access to the emergency room and the overloading of structures. In addition, it allows you to reserve home access to those in real need. Thanks to remote assistance, it is easier to contain the contagion between healthcare professionals, patients and family members.
For the environment
Moving data (and not patients or doctors) reduces traffic and CO2 emissions.
Multi-channel Patient Care: the Health at the Home platform
The I-Tel Home Health Telemedicine solution allows you to manage, coordinate and set up a set of digital services for prevention, remote assistance and patient care.
From television to integration with wearable devices to chatbots and apps, it simplifies the management of services in support of families to treat (and take care) the elderly, chronically ill and frail people.
Health at Home, a single multi-channel platform for:
- support healthcare personnel in defining care plans
- interact with patients on multiple channels (video call, SMS, telephone, Chabot, app, email)
- to detect clinical parameters remotely, also by means of medical devices
- encourage teleconsultation between health professionals
- create and manage monitoring operations centres
- Some remote monitoring and remote assistance projects of which I-Tel is a technological partner :
- Home Patient Care Network for Covid-19 patients in fiduciary isolation
- SOS Smart Ostomy Support, Connected Care for the remote care of the ostomy patient
Patient Care Network solutions to support the elderly
As a direct connection with one’s family network and health care, the Patient Care Network can also be a valuable tool for assisting the elderly.
Senior Citizens often live alone, have chronic illnesses and limitations in daily activities. The interconnection between intelligent objects and multi-channel communication (via app, chatbot, text message, video call) guarantee their monitoring and facilitate communication, with a timely warning in the event of a fall or unpleasant circumstances.
Among the technologies useful to ensure the safety of the elderly in daily life management, a solution designed specifically to support fragile people in the event of falls or sudden illness.
It is a life-saving system developed by Easy Life, a reality that we have recently known and that we consider particularly interesting.
The pcnok system is explicitly designed for the safety of people during normal daily activities. In case of emergency, it allows you to ask for help and activate your network of family and friends until, if necessary, you can contact 112 directly.
Among the positive effects, guaranteeing total safety even in an emergency improves the quality of life of the elderly and the family members who intend to take care of them even if there is a shortage of time.
The pcnok allows you to send emergency calls and messages to contacts previously entered in the app’s Address Book. In a fall, the Lifesaving Button automatically sends emergency messages to the safety net. The coordinates of the place to go are sent in the SOS messages to ensure prompt intervention.
In the event that no person within the safety net can intervene, it is possible to entrust the assistance intervention directly to the emergency service. The application automatically sends and receives the GPS coordinates, and the type of emergency detected to the national emergency centre, immediately mobilising help.
Patient Care Network and innovation to take care of people
Thanks to technological innovation and solutions that remotely solve the safety, health management, and daily life of people, the chronic patient and the elderly benefit from constant monitoring, in full respect of their autonomy and organization of the whole family.
To offer assistance of this type, you need simple, reliable and secure connectivity. A problem for most organizations. Here’s how pcnok can help you.
- The unified infrastructure offers a single point of management for wired and wireless networks and the SD-Branch of any deployment in the healthcare sector.
- pcnok can guarantee the profiling and correct authorization of access to the network of all users’ medical records, of everything connected to the Internet.
- With AI, you can implement network automation and offer solid management tools to your operators.