Extend Years of Independent, Healthy Aging at Home

When Neal (67) went home after an angiogram and stent procedure with a box full of devices - a Bluetooth weight scale, KardiaMobile for ECGs, blood pressure monitor, and pulse oximeter - plus a remote monitoring service that tracked his readings. His cardiac biomarkers were tracked through regular lab work: hs-CRP for inflammation, NT-proBNP for heart failure risk, lipids, electrolytes, etc.. ​ But after six months, the clinic's follow up monitoring program ended and the devices had to be returned. ​ That's when Rohan (45), Neal’s son bought his father an Apple Watch and suggested they continue tracking his ECG, SpO2 and steps and his BP using monitor from Amazon and weight using his bathroom scale. All this data was uploaded to Continuum via his smartphone and WhatsApp and they digitized his lab test results and kept the monitoring going. ​ At his annual checkup, he showed his doctor the past 6-months of device readings and lab results all neatly charted and displayed together. "We don't usually get to see labs and all device data side by side like this." His primary care doctor had the same reaction. "I thought maybe they'd tell us to stop," Neal’s son told us. "Instead, they kept the data sheet and asked us to keep monitoring." It’s now been over two years and he measures his vitals and sends them to Continuum even when he travels. We feel his recovery is on track.” #Effortless Data Fusion #CareCircle Booster #Lab Digitization

Mike (70) had been prescribed anti-hypertensive medications to bring his BP under control. Mike took the pills with breakfast – it was easy to remember and seemed to make sense. But six months later his BP numbers at the clinic stayed stubbornly high. His doctor suggested he could prescribe another medication. Mike’s son bought a $50 BP monitor from Walgreens and asked his father to take one reading in the morning and another in the evening as recommended by the AMA. He signed up both of them for a ContinuumCare Beta. He taught his father how to take a photo of the reading with his iPhone and then text it to Continuum. The measurement was digitized, graphed and averages were calculated, which both of them could see. A pattern emerged: his morning readings were decent, but in the afternoon his numbers were high. 

He uploaded a pdf of his Dad’s data to MyCharts. Looking at the pattern, his doctor asked him to take the medication with lunch rather than breakfast and to send him the next two weeks of data. They followed the doctor’s advice and added a reminder notification in the Continuum App. Two weeks later the late-afternoon reading began to drop with the original med.  Being able to record his BP and heart rate helped them both see what was going on, and share it with his doctor. Together they got this risk factor under control. #Always Available Data Capture  #CareCircle Booster  #Medication Mastery