The traditional way of practicing medicine has gone down in history.

-by Maria Jesus Garcia

Spain, March of 2013– when we suffer a minor medical condition or suffer from a chronic illness are used to visit our doctor who will listen to us and prescribed us medications. And if we want to follow up on our suffering, we must repeat the formula. Although this traditional way of health service has many advantages, we must recognize that it does not allow health care providers have day-to-day control of the physical condition of a chronic patient.

It is undeniable that we are in the digital age and that the technology has revolutionized the way of practicing medicine. Based on this reality, imagine that the doctor-patient relationship gave a great leap already not to be necessary to visit your doctor constantly to maintain their health is stable, but that technological devices by their State of health could be daily telemonitorizado and that this raised the quality of monitoring and care of its pathologyas well as being immediately attended before any alarm.

Modern advances in medicine to telemedicine and distance have already made this possible.

Telemedicine equipment make it possible to treat a condition, diagnose, perform Leatham, optimize services, educate on health, save money, and most importantly: save time, determining factor when the word emergency enters into scene.

Numerous teams of telemedicine have been launched onto the market, but not everyone responds with the same effectiveness to a chronic patient care needs. TeleMedCare (TMC), a system of telemonitoring and control of chronic patients, appears as the favorite.

TMC is a device that allows to measure vital signs at any time desired. Collects data on blood pressure non-invasive temperature, heart activity, oxygen saturation in blood, weight, glucose levels, and spirometry. TMC sends data via online to a station that has the clinical history of the patient. The data are analyzed by a health professional, who contrasts the results. Where the patient has an abnormal, considered high risk measurement, the doctor acts immediately, mobilizing the necessary resources for patient care.

Perhaps to know some of the benefits of TMC is what you will be thinking that this appliance is complex and little affordable for anyone. Fortunately, TMC, in addition to being a highly effective technology team, is also a friendly device with touch screen, easy to use, with biometric fingerprint recognition.

Its many functions, it would be logical to assume that it is a device of gargantuan dimensions which occupies the space of a whole hospital room, but it is not. TMC has the size of a computer, is compact and portable, allowing health workers to take it with you and take the measurements, even in the patient’s own home.

In addition this innovative system is multi-user, so it can be used by a large number of patients. But not only the hospitals and care homes take advantage of this system, but that their applications are fully valid in centers of medical insurers, business groups, health centres, etc. In short, anywhere you want to offer a high quality health service to patients with chronic diseases and the best, all this without spending a fortune.

TMC is an ideal example to reveal many of the benefits of telemedicine to the world of health. Today, remote medicine is presented as the perfect ally in healthcare; dispense with it represents to take many steps back in health care.

In short, when we talk about a vital issue, such as health, anyone expected will spare no any resource in health services. We all want to be cared for in the best possible way, with the best equipment and without excessive costs, therefore, the idea of depriving patients of the opportunity to take care of your health through modern methods, offering technology, would be as misguided as denying that the traditional way of practicing medicine has gone down in history.