Watches are in and they are no stranger to helping people out; especially home health care patients. It seems as though necklaces aka life alert systems are a thing of the past thanks to Samsung and their recent partnership with Reemo Health, a senior health technology company. Originally set out to improve the quality of home health care for senior patients in usability, heart rate monitoring, body movements, and GPS location. This partnership that started two years prior has now blossomed into a device that not only works well for care receivers, but now care givers. With alerts and status reports on patients wearing the devices, the new system is set to prepare all home health care givers for whatever curveballs their patients may inadvertently “throw” at them.
The absolute last thing Reemo Health wanted to do was to place another burden upon the shoulders of care givers when navigating their ways through the sometimes rough seas of home health care. According to Home Health Care News, “health care providers can examine the wearer’s data, including their activities and conditions prior to a hospitalization or fall. That retrospective data can help determine what happened and how providers can prevent the occurrence, keeping the patient at home. The smartwatch data can also be integrated on an electronic health record.” Teaming up with Teradata, a leading data and analytics solutions provider, the smartwatch device is already being utilized all over the country.
The trick with the device however is ensuring that patients and seniors will continue to use it and find it easy to understand; which is never a guarantee. By not requiring phone pairing through Bluetooth and allowing the device to be user-ready straight from the box, Reemo has attempted to make this transition as easy as possible for seniors. Flirting along the lines of Life Alert, Reemo decided to partner with ADT tp “provide a simple-to-access 911 service” through the simple push of a single button. ADT has proven to be so helpful that they are even able to determine whether the patient is in need of an ambulance or just simply need to connect with a family member immediately.
Originally the device was set to offer much gesture control “the ability to turn off lights, adjust thermostats and perform other simple tasks with the waive of a wrist.” Apparently, the users found these functions unnecessary which led to the evolution of these features into similar and same algorithms created that enhance the quality of movement. What once started out as a device intended to simplify home health care for patients has now evolved into a two-way-street for all in the industry. It is the company’s intention to provide quality home health care in Arizona through the usage of the smartwatch to better the experience of health care for all.
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