The NHS is constantly seeking ways to improve the delivery of healthcare to patients. With an ageing population, demoralising waiting lists and increasing demand for services, the NHS must find innovative solutions to maintain the quality of care while reducing costs. One such solution yet to be implemented is remote monitoring of patient range and quality of motion.
Remote monitoring allows healthcare providers to track a patient's progress and make adjustments to their treatment plan in real-time, without the need for in-person visits. This modern approach to patient care brings several benefits to the NHS, including improved patient outcomes, increased efficiency, cost savings, improved patient engagement, better use of resources, and improved data collection and analysis.
Studies have shown that remote monitoring can improve patient outcomes compared to traditional in-person rehabilitation. This is because remote monitoring allows healthcare providers to track a patient's progress and make adjustments to their treatment plan in real-time rather than needing to wait weeks or even months to identify issues at a scheduled physical appointment or when a patient presents with complications.
Remote monitoring can significantly increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery, particularly in the field of orthopaedics, musculoskeletal medicine, and physiotherapy. By reducing the need for in-person visits, remote monitoring can save time, freeing up resources for other patients, and reduce waiting times.
Remote monitoring can also help reduce healthcare costs. By reducing the need for in-person visits, remote monitoring can help reduce the overall cost of healthcare delivery and improve the sustainability of the NHS.
Remote monitoring can increase patient engagement by giving them more control over their own care and enabling patients to track their own progress.This can help to increase adherence to treatment plans and improve patient outcomes.
Remote monitoring can help healthcare providers make better use of their resources, by allowing them to prioritise in-person care for patients who need it the most. This can improve the overall quality of care and reduce the burden on healthcare providers.
Remote monitoring can generate large amounts of data that can be analysed to improve the delivery of care. This can help healthcare providers to make informed decisions about patient treatment plans and improve patient outcomes.
Remote monitoring of patient range and quality of motion has the potential to bring numerous benefits to the NHS. By improving patient outcomes, increasing efficiency, reducing costs, increasing patient engagement, making better use of resources, and improving the collection and utilisation of data, remote monitoring can help the NHS deliver high-quality care to more patients while reducing costs and improving the sustainability of the system.
While the benefits of remote monitoring are clear, the challenge for clinicians and healthcare providers has been a lack of alternative to the use of physical tools (i.e. stopwatch, goniometer) and in-person appointments when it comes to monitoring objective outcomes such as the range and quality of patient movements.
Agile Kinetic have been focused entirely on this challenge since 2020 and have developed MoveLab® to provide simple, sustainable and scalable movement analysis using cutting edge AI computer vision throug a patient's own smartphone or webcam. Find out more or contact us to trial MoveLab.
We are working very closely with a number of innovative NHS and private clinicians to solve major healthcare challenges, and are always excited to learn about other opportunities to drive progress and collaborate