OSF Home Care’s Telehealth System provides you with:

• 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week at-home patient monitoring.
• Monitoring of heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature and weight.
• Peripherals such as glucose meter, spirometer and a PT/INR can be attached for specialized patients.
• Vital signs are stored in a central station at OSF Home Care.
• A complete report, including trends, can be faxed to your physician whenever needed.
• Measured vitals registered outside the norm will be sent to your physician immediately.
• Care to prevent unneeded patient hospitalization and visits to the emergency room.
• Improved quality of life.
• State-of-the-art technology through HomMedTM LLC, the leading supplier of home telemonitoring devices.

The system is easy and convenient to use. Each morning, the monitor talks the patient through the process, then automatically transmits the data to OSF Home Care where our staff will clinically reviews their condition and responds appropriately.

Vital signs are stored in a central station at our office and available at anytime for your physician's review. For instance, we can fax a graphic trend of a patients’ vital signs the morning of their office visit. This capability is especially useful in treating post-surgical patients, congestive heart failure patients, hypertensive patients and those on beta-blockers.

The peripheral attachments support active clinical management of diabetes, pulmonary disorders and those on Coumadin.

To provide this enhanced level of care, OSF Home Care has partnered with HomMed^TM LLC, the leading supplier of home telemonitoring devices. The HomMed^TM Health Monitoring System has been extensively tested in several major teaching institutions and is currently being utilized in numerous clinical sites throughout the United States with outstanding results. The HomMed^TM Health Monitoring System has the Federal Food and Drug Administration's 510-K Class II status approval.

Why OSF Home Care for Telehealth services?

OSF Home Care realizes that new advances in telemonitoring can greatly enhance home care services and we are excited to be the first in the area to deliver this level of service to patients at no extra cost. Currently, on average, most home care nurses visit patients twice weekly. With HomMed^TM, we can provide daily monitoring - 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week.