MANAGED HEALTH SYSTEMS PLATFORM
The PharmaWorld SA is proud to introduce this complete Telemedicine service model to the South African market
The PharmaWorld SA system focuses on the world of the diabetic and the challenges of living with diabetes by supplying a comprehensive digital diabetes care platform and devices that make constant contact, monitoring and follow up simple
Our model offers solutions to four main health sectors, namely:
Patients
Doctors and Clinicians
Medical Insurers
Government
The platform is a Cloud-based system whereby the patient’s readings are automatically uploaded into a secure database, through the use of Smart Glucometers. The patient’s records are then visible only to persons authorised to view them. Physicians set parameters for the levels which are deemed to be safe. Should the patient’s recordings exceed the limits, the system will alert the interested parties in order for action to be taken.
Record is kept of patient’s weight, age, habits, HbA1c, glucose levels as well as notes made by the doctor and all communication with the patient with regard to the consultations. This creates a specialised patients record system.
WHAT DOES THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY MEAN FOR YOU?
- No longer the need to record patient readings on pieces of paper
- Loved ones can have the peace of mind which comes from monitoring the health of their aged parents or children
- The tests proved that patient’s HbA1c levels are reduced allowing them to lead a better life
- Patient’s costs could be reduced and patients in rural areas need not travel long distances to meet with their physician
- Doctors can manage many more patients as they are only dealing with the exceptions reported by the platform which emails the doctor on a regular basis.
- Doctors have access to more detailed information at hand
- Patients performance can be monitored from a “Single pane of glass”
Compliance is increasingly becoming a concern for Medical Insurers as the complications arising from out-of-control diabetes can be extremely costly.
- Medical insurers can track the blood sugar levels of its members in Real Time.
- No physical interference means records are untampered and are accurately stored in a uniform structured manner
- Medical insurers have a platform from which to reward their members for staying compliant
- Fewer space demands can potentially result in smaller health facilities, with concurrent reductions in overall patient waiting times and costs
- Reduced risk of transmission such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Smaller health facilities, with concurrent reductions in construction materials, energy and water consumption, waste, and provides a benefit to the overall environmental impact.
Some examples below of how our Diabetes Platform displays Information and Readings
Patient Information
Patient Glucose Readings
ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLATFORM
The platform was developed as part of a Telehealth program funded by the European Union and driven by United4Health. The project United4Health is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Commission.
The United4Health project is made up of several building blocks, all contributing to pursuing a common objective: assessing the impact of innovative healthcare services, that have been redesigned to take full advantage of telehealth.
The core of the project is the four innovative services models using telehealth technologies to care for patients suffering from Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Diabetes and Hypertension
Each work package in United4Health produced a number of deliverables which provide the details of the activities undertaken, together with the findings, results, learning and outcomes for the relevant work packages.
Nine healthcare delivery organisations in the United4Health consortium will deploy at large scale and assess the effectiveness and organisational aspects of the telehealth service model with the focus on deployment in a routine care environment.
The intervention aims to:
- Promote self-care and self-management by encouraging use of self-monitoring glucose and lifestyle risk factors and by providing ongoing health coaching
- Allow the patient to use the provided device for the measurement of blood glucose level
- Make use of the device to collect and transmit the data to the Regional eHealth Centre for processing by the appropriate medical professional for monitoring.
- Allow the healthcare professionals to monitor and manage the data, including access to the web based portal to allow monitoring of the patient’s health condition at any time.
This technology has been successfully adopted in two European countries to date, Germany and Slovenia