Ascom launches Activity Monitoring, an innovative software solution for long-term care homes
15 Mayo 2024 - 12:00AM
UK Regulatory
Ascom launches Activity Monitoring, an innovative software solution
for long-term care homes
Ascom Activity Monitoring is an end-to-end solution for
long-term care that monitor and predict a
deterioration in the health of residents. Built on
top of Ascom SmartSense, this state-of-the-art and fully
interoperable software allows the integration of external sensors
and monitors movements and wander behavior, detects potential
falls, and monitors typical sleep patterns, etc. of long-term care
home residents. Active Monitoring also optimizes workflow
efficiency for the caregivers while preserving residents'
lifestyle, privacy and safety.
The Ascom Activity Monitoring solution is part
of the company's strategy to address the growing market for smart
solutions in the long-term care industry. According to studies by
the United Nations, the number of people worldwide aged 65 and
older is expected to rise to 1.5 billion by 2050, compared to 702
million in 20191. The number of people aged 80 years or
older is expected to grow even faster.
What is the Ascom Activity Monitoring
solution?
With the Activity Monitoring solution, Ascom provides an end-to-end
solution for long-term care. The Ascom SmartSense algorithm
converts incoming sensor data into statuses and warnings as needed
and enables caregivers to have a better and continuous health
update of the resident, predict a health deterioration, and rapidly
modify the care provided to prevent possible
consequences. When paired with Ofélia or Unite, alarms can be
customized to each resident’s needs and sent to the right person,
to the right device, and at the right time. Since the Ascom
Activity Monitoring system is based on open integration
infrastructure, third-party sensors, smart cameras, or other smart
sensors can be easy integrated.
Ascom SmartSense meets regional and national regulatory
criteria.
How does it work?
A variety of sensors are positioned thoughtfully across the
residents' rooms. An infrared ceiling detector can track movement,
a door detector senses wandering, and a mattress detector looks for
potential falls. Caregivers may easily integrate the sensors
that are most appropriate for a resident's needs and confirm the
resident's condition by consolidating data from multiple sources
and presenting an overview of the resident on a single dashboard.
Dashboards are available to caregivers on a variety of devices,
such as professional smartphones like Myco 4 and ward
computers.
Providing added value to residents and
caregivers
By observing residents' overall lifestyle patterns, caregivers can
enhance the patient’s experience in terms of comfort, dignity
preservation, and maintaining the resident's autonomy and
privacy. Caregivers can also predict how much staff and
equipment will be needed, which improves timeliness and reduces
costs. It is also possible to detect a deterioration in a
resident's health at an early stage if their lifestyle deviates
from the norm. Caregivers are also able to limit the number of
rounds (particularly when patients are resting and do not want to
be disturbed) and concentrate on the residents who need it the most
at any given time, all thanks to the global view of the various
statuses of residents on the ward in real-time (virtual
round).
The introduction of the Ascom Activity
Monitoring solution addresses the growing market demand for smart
solutions in the long-term care and home care industry in view of
the increasing number of residents that are becoming more and more
dependent, the shortage of staff, and cost-efficient budgets. The
Ascom Activity Monitoring solution enhances outcomes through the
digitization of care.
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https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/WorldPopulationAgeing2019-Highlights.pdf,
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