Vitalis Virtual Hospital Care
Virtual Hospital Care is a proven alternative to hospital stays, combining the best in-person healthcare-at-home treatment with active remote patient management.
What is Vitalis Virtual Hospital Care?
At Vitalis, we are passionate about delivering trusted and transformative healthcare – in person and remotely.
Vitalis Virtual Hospital Care combines remote monitoring technology, telehealth and video conferencing with clinical expertise to deliver hospital-standard support to patients in the comfort of their own home. If required, Vitalis Virtual can integrate with Vitalis services such as Hospital in the Home (HITH) and Rehabilitation in the Home (RITH).
Benefits of Vitalis Virtual Hospital Care
- Provides true value-based care for public and private hospitals and health systems, while delivering exceptional outcomes and experiences for patients.
- Enables hospitals to increase capacity without needing to expand bricks and mortar facilities.
- Improves the efficiency of healthcare delivery by streamlining processes, potentially leading to faster diagnosis and treatment.
- Reduces avoidable hospital admissions for high-risk patients with multiple co-morbidities and/or chronic conditions.
- Reduces length of hospitalisation through active patient monitoring following an inpatient stay.
- Serves as an alternative to emergency departments (EDs), and enables rapid discharge from EDs.
- Provides healthcare funders with active management of their at-risk patients.
- Provides tangible savings to patients in terms of transport and parking costs, as well as time spent travelling to and from appointments.
- Supports patients in rural and remote areas, reducing the pressure on healthcare providers.
What services does Vitalis provide?
Vitalis Health specialises in meeting the clinical and personal needs of every patient. As well as identifying and understanding critical issues, we ensure patients are heard and included in their treatment and care planning. Our healthcare-at-home services are available both privately (health insurance or user pay) and publicly through public health systems, government departments and the NDIS. They include:
Hospital at Home Services
Care at Home Services
Virtual and Remote Services
Rehabilitation in the Home
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FAQs
What is Vitalis Health's Virtual Hospital Care?
This industry-leading offering provides a safe and effective alternative to hospital for patients who require active management in the community. It lets patients safely and securely connect with a medical expert through telehealth, remote monitoring and video conferencing.
How does it work?
Vitalis uses telehealth remote monitoring technology and video conferencing to enable our clinical experts to check on, review and assess patients. This allows us to remotely provide hospital-standard care for patients at home.
The supplied data is collected on our platform. Our healthcare professionals have live access to this data so they can monitor the patient in real time.
Who can it help?
This type of care can support people with heart failure, diabetes, COPD or a combination of all three conditions.
What technology is used/required?
There are two technology-delivery methods:
- The patient uses their own monitoring equipment and then sends the data to Vitalis.
- Vitalis supplies the measuring equipment (e.g., oximeter, glucometer, blood pressure machine and thermometer) as part of the Virtual Hospital Care service.
Vitals Virtual also provides access to our platforms and app for easy sharing of the data. As part of the service, our team provides the technical support you need to be able to confidently access and use all devices and platforms.
How secure is the data?
Vitalis adheres to the highest standards of data-storage and privacy that are required in Australia. All data is securely stored by Vitalis and only limited numbers of people have access to this data.