Cloud DX (TSX-V:CDX, OTCQB:CDXFF) Inc, a provider of virtual care and remote patient monitoring solutions, has revealed positive new findings from a survey of Ottawa Hospital patients who recently participated in a study across Canada using remote automated monitoring after being discharged and sent home after a surgery.
According to the survey of 204 respondents, 97% of the patients indicated that they either strongly agreed, or agreed they were “highly satisfied” with Cloud DX’s Connected Health remote patient monitoring platform. They said they would recommend the program to friends and family.
At least 89% of respondents also strongly agreed or agreed that the quality of care they received was equal to, or better than, the care they would have received face-to-face. Respondents also found Cloud DX 's technology easy to use.
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The company said the survey takes a patient-centric look at a advanced post-surgical remote patient monitoring and the data was collected between May and December 2021.
Earlier in 2020, The Ottawa Hospital was one of nine Canadian facilities to participate in a national clinical study of patient outcomes from virtual care and remote automated monitoring (RAM). Half of 905 post-surgery patients were randomized to use the technology at home for 30 days after they left the hospital.
Several centers in the PVC-RAM-1 study found fewer patients with the take-home technology had to return to the hospital for care. In addition, more patients in the virtual care group, compared to the standard care group, had a medication error detected (30% compared to 6%) and corrected (28% versus 4%).
In addition, fewer of the virtual care patients - a difference of 10% to 14% lower - reported pain compared to the standard care group. Results of the national study were published in “The BMJ.”
"We are delighted to see such a strongly positive response to Cloud DX's technology and monitoring program from patients in The Ottawa Hospital community," Cloud DX founder CEO Robert Kaul said in a statement. "It further validates our work to make our technology easy to use, user-friendly and to help patients feel empowered in their recovery from illness and surgery, knowing that nursing and medical help was just a text message away."
The Ottawa Hospital is currently operating a Ministry of Health funded program that continues to offer Connected Health as a new standard of care. Funding for the initiative comes from The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization (TOHAMO) COVID-19 Innovation Grant, Roche Canada COVID-19 Innovation Grant, McMaster COVID-19 Research Fund, and The Research Institute of St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
Manoj Lalu, Sylvie Aucoin, and Daniel Dubois are the physician leads for virtual post-operative care for The Ottawa Hospital site.
"Our hope was that this enhanced virtual care will reduce complications in patients after surgery and keep them out of hospital," said Dr Lalu, an associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa. "Our research findings supported this hypothesis, and we were very pleased that patients readily accepted the remote monitoring program and found it very helpful in their recovery."
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