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Avera well@home

What would it be like to receive quality care at home without constant nurse visits or unexpected trips to the doctor or hospital?

Imagine what it might feel like to monitor health care with confidence and independence. What if you were able to have the answers to your health care questions right at your fingertips?

well@home gives patients the security and confidence of professional care in the comfort of home. Using monitors set to patients’ physicians’ plan of care, well@home provides patients with individualized health education and instruction, and signals them about their daily health maintenance routine.

Of course, well@home does not replace home care nurses, who continue to have a close relationship with patients. Instead, well@home is an added layer of presence, tracking important vital signs for patients and their health care professionals and keeping them informed and confident in their care.

Simple to use and easy to understand, well@home’s easy-toread, color touch-screen is patientfriendly.  well@home uses highly readable text, a clearly spoken human voice and colorful graphics. It fits right into a patient’s daily routine and ensures that Avera home care nurses and physicians have all of a patient’s latest health information.

Five well@home patient care features help promote a healthy and independent lifestyle.

well@home Features

  • Reminds patients to take their medications and do other physician-ordered activities
  • Educates patients about their health, doctors’ orders and medications
  • Monitors patients’ health by measuring weight, blood pressure and other vital signs
  • Instructs patients on how to properly perform physicianordered tasks
  • Reports regularly to patients’ Avera health care providers about their health status\

Improved Care

Patients and caregivers will quickly come to view well@home as their own personal health assistant. Home care patients who use well@home report:

  • up to a 58.3 percent reduction in hospitalizations
  • up to a 55.6 percent reduction in emergency room trips
  • up to a 30.7 percent increase in the ability to stay at home

Requirements

well@home requires both a ground telephone line and electricity. Patients also need to be willing to utilize this technology in their homes.