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Octagos Health was founded by a team of healthcare professionals to better serve cardiac device patients. Octagos Health designs cutting edge remote monitoring software and provides best-in-class service to healthcare professionals and patients. Read Our Articles on Remote Patient Monitoring, health tips to update with technologies in medical industry to remote monitor heart patients in their..
Octagos Health Blog
4M ago
Your heart suddenly starts pounding rapidly and chaotically during a run. Just as quickly, it reverts to normal, leaving you puzzled and unnerved. Was that a serious arrhythmia or a fleeting glitch? Without catching the irregular rhythm on an electrocardiogram (ECG), your cardiologist can only guess. However, new remote cardiac monitoring technologies are cutting lengthy delays in diagnosis by giving doctors 24/7 access to the heart’s electrical signals.
Diagnosing Heart Conditions Quicker Through Remote Checking
How is this possible and how could it transform cardiac care? Put on your sensors ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
5M ago
Fitbit or Physician
That Fitbit on your wrist seems smart, counting every step and steadfastly tracking your resting heart rate. The convenience seems too good to give up – a personal health assistant right at your fingertips 24/7. But how much can you really trust those friendly pulses and dots compared to a trained physician?
Fitbit or Physician? Who’s Really Monitoring Your Heart Health
As wearables explode in popularity for casual wellness monitoring, the debate rages on: Are Fitbits and at-home heart trackers helpful health motivators or merely shiny toys that can’t compare to medical e ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
5M ago
Your heart suddenly starts racing, skipping beats, or fluttering for no apparent reason. These sporadic heart rhythm disturbances come and go without warning. Your doctor suspects an underlying arrhythmia, but traditional tests have all come back to normal. What now?
You may need a cardiac cryptographer – better known as an implantable loop recorder. This miniature heart monitor provides the long-term surveillance required to decipher infrequent cardiac misfires. Like an aircraft black box for the heart, the recorder constantly records cardiac events, letting physicians analyze the data to unl ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
6M ago
Introduction
The future pulse of cardiac care will be wired, not wired up. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is bringing the clinic home by enabling continuous oversight of heart health outside hospital walls. But implementing RPM effectively is key to enhancing outcomes. This article explores how optimized remote monitoring not only benefits clinics through cost savings, but more crucially, detects issues early, coordinates care teams, engages patients, analyzes data, and provides convenient access. When thoughtfully executed, RPM can reinvent the rhythm of cardiac care to drive preventio ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
6M ago
REMOTE CARDIAC MONITORING: MEANING
Remote cardiac monitoring is a fairly non-invasive method of keeping track of a patient’s cardiac activity from a remote location.
Cardiac monitoring, or remote heart monitoring, is a method by which information from a patient’s implantable rhythm management device can be communicated directly to a physician’s office. This allows the doctor and their team to review a patient’s heart activity and device performance without the patient needing to be physically present
RCM PROGRAMME: NEED
With the fast-approaching digitization, opting for remote card ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
7M ago
Remote Cardiac Monitoring
Remote cardiac monitoring is a technology that allows healthcare providers to monitor patients’ cardiac health remotely. It reduces healthcare costs by decreasing the need for in-person visits, emergency room care, and hospital stays. In simple words, cardiac remote monitoring is a technology that allows healthcare professionals to monitor heart activity remotely. Heart failure is a major health challenge throughout the world. Remote monitoring can help improve healthcare for those who have mobility issues or live in remote areas.
One of the biggest advantages f ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
7M ago
Remote monitoring for heart failure patients has always been one of the favorite topics for most researchers and clinicians, especially post-COVID-19 pandemic. Remote cardiac monitoring refers to the use of various technologies to collect and transmit data on the cardiac function and status of patients with heart failure, heart rate, intracardiac and pulmonary artery pressures, weight, and symptoms. The goal of remote monitoring is to detect any early signs of worsening heart failure and intervene before the patient requires hospitalization or experiences other adverse outcomes.
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Octagos Health Blog
7M ago
Over 17 million deaths per year and the reason behind them: Heart disease!
However, many of these deaths can simply be prevented by making a few lifestyle changes and being aware of one’s own health. This is where revolutionary progress in technology and artificial intelligence comes into the picture; making a real difference out there. Without a doubt, these software-based solutions are now providing better care for patients as it is based on a more personalized, proactive, and digitally-enabled care approach for cardiac patients. It makes the future of heart health management empowerin ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
8M ago
Heart Health
Heart health is very important for everyone as it promotes the overall well-being of a person. The heart is the core of the cardiovascular system, and it is the organ for just about everything that gives life to your body — ranging from the supply of oxygen to the success of your immune system. When your heart is healthy, it can pump blood efficiently to all parts of your body, delivering oxygen and nutrients to your cells and removing waste products while it disrupts the whole system if the condition of your heart is not good. A healthy heart not only helps to maintain a normal b ..read more
Octagos Health Blog
8M ago
Remote Cardiac Monitoring Pushes People
Remote cardiac monitoring simply means monitoring of the patient’s heart remotely which helps in accurate and timely monitoring of the signs & symptoms that our body tries to indicate to us.
And it would be absolutely correct to state that remote cardiac monitoring pushes people toward more well-informed decisions regarding their heart health.
Remote cardiac monitoring can help people make well-informed decisions about their cardiac health and treatment options. By providing continuous and accurate data, remote cardiac monitoring can help patie ..read more