Ensure Safe and Effective IV Antibiotic Treatment at Home
Remecare digitizes treatment plans and actively involves all healthcare providers, ensuring safe and effective outpatient antibiotic therapy.
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Safe and effective home treatment of infections
Certain infections, such as those affecting bones, joints, heart valves, or the prostate, require long-term intravenous (IV) antibiotics. With OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy) integrated into Remecare’s care pathway, these treatments can be safely and effectively continued at home, allowing patients to return to their daily routines quickly.
Remecare digitizes the treatment plan and actively engages all healthcare providers, including home nurses, general practitioners, specialists, and hospital pharmacists, each fulfilling their specific roles. Remecare's technology ensures the OPAT program is efficiently organized, offering you, the treating physician, the following benefits:
Streamlined discharge & initiation of OPAT patients
Discharging an OPAT patient involves significant administrative work, and primary care providers must be promptly informed. Remecare simplifies these tasks and seamlessly integrates into your existing EHR software.
Remecare ensures that all necessary information reaches the appropriate stakeholders upon patient discharge. The initiation process includes therapy-specific questions (such as required medications) and allows the addition of necessary documents (such as prescriptions).
When patients are discharged from the hospital, they are assigned a team of healthcare providers. Depending on their role (general practitioner, home nurse, hospital pharmacist, etc.), each stakeholder receives different information regarding the patient's treatment. This ensures seamless communication with colleagues in primary care.
The treating physician prefers to initiate the OPAT care pathway directly from their own EHR software package. Thanks to the Circle-of-Trust (COT) integration, this can be done from various EHR systems. Patient data is automatically transferred to the care pathway in Remecare, and the prescriber's information is shared. This process is quick and helps prevent errors.
Extend hospital-quality care to the patient's home
As a specialist physician, you remain responsible for overseeing an OPAT patient when they are outside the hospital. Remecare digitizes the care plan, ensuring the continuation of high-quality care at home. Additionally, you receive only actions and information relevant to your role.
Remecare acts as a medical orchestrator, ensuring that all stakeholders are guided and receive the right actions at the right time. This is particularly important in complex care pathways like OPAT, where multiple stakeholders are involved, and timing between their actions is critical.
Remecare generates actions based on roles and ensures that each stakeholder only receives the information relevant to them. For example, in an OPAT treatment, home nurses will need to perform specific actions that apply only to them, such as completing the necessary training on the type of antibiotic and how to administer it. This way, an IV antibiotic treatment can be continued at home with the same quality of care as in the hospital.
Remecare easily exchanges data with different systems via the FHIR protocol. An FHIR server makes all relevant medical data available for secondary use. This means that health data can be aggregated at a population level with the aim of gaining and/or supporting new and meaningful insights to further improve the quality of care provided, benefiting patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare systems.
Peace of Mind with Remote Monitoring
Without suitable technology, monitoring OPAT patients can quickly turn into extra work for you and your care team. Fortunately, Remecare has built-in technology that allows you to monitor OPAT patients at scale with peace of mind.
Remecare provides comprehensive remote monitoring, allowing healthcare professionals to closely track patients' vital parameters and relevant symptoms. For OPAT, this includes monitoring body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, antibiotic administration, and any symptoms or complications, such as pain or inflammation at the catheter insertion site, all recorded by the home nursing team.
The OPAT care pathway generates much data on vital parameters, medication feedback, and symptoms. For a large group of patients, this can lead to a significant workload for monitoring nurses. Smart algorithms in Remecare generate alerts for abnormal data, allowing monitoring nurses to work efficiently. They can focus on patients with urgent care needs and avoid spending time on cases that are progressing well.
With Remecare, you always have an overview of who performed which action and when. In the event of complications, it is immediately clear whether any steps were not carried out correctly.
Remecare: a certified Class IIa Medical Device
The Remecare platform is a certified Class IIa medical device, meaning it can be safely used for telemonitoring both vital and non-vital parameters of patients receiving home care, in a certified and legally compliant manner.
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Leading hospitals use Remecare
"Thanks to Remecare we can differentiate whether symptoms should lead to a hospital visit or not."
"Remecare gives us a sense of security. We know if patients are therapy compliant and we can avoid emergencies or unexpected consultations."
“Remecare has revolutionized patient monitoring for our hospital. It has greatly improved our ability to track transmural IV antibiotic treatments and provide timely care.”
