Northwell Health Home Care Network offers tablets to patients to enable telemonitoring

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Through Health Recovery Solutions’ advanced telemonitoring technology, Northwell home care patients now have wireless, Bluetooth-enabled tablets that include a moveable video camera, blood-pressure and digital weight monitors, a pulse oximeter and a stethoscope. The device transmits vital sign and symptom information to patients’ physicians, nurses and family members in real time, and also triggers alerts for patients at high risk of a medical emergency. Worth noting is that Northwell is one of the first home care providers in the New York metropolitan area, and the only one on Long Island, to provide such telemonitoring capabilities.