The home cardiac monitoring solution from Broomwell Healthwatch enables people with a history of cardiac problems – such as heart attacks or angina – to have access to an advanced home heart monitoring solution, giving them immediate access to expert diagnosis of cardiac symptoms and providing rapid reassurance for cardiac false alarms.
Broomwell’s telemedical cardiac monitoring service has been highlighted in Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review Report as an example of how to give patients effective and convenient care closer to home.
Abermed, medical services provider to the North Sea oil and gas industry, has deployed a telemedical ECG service from Broomwell Healthwatch to 20 rigs across the North Sea to help offshore medics diagnose coronary blood clots and correctly administer medication to treat the problem on-site as part of the company’s 24/7 offshore emergency service cover.
A study of a 12-month trial of a cardiac telemedicine service supervised by the Greater Manchester and Cheshire (GMC) Cardiac Network has shown that the Broomwell HealthWatch telemedical ECG service avoids the need for immediate referral of patients with non-acute chest-pain symptoms to hospital care in the majority of cases.
Bridgwater Community Hospital has opted for a telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch to provide expert cardiology reporting for for patients attending the hospital's Urgent Treatment Centre.
A cardiac telemedicine service pilot project in Cumbria and Lancashire has shown the potential to save up to 90,000 A & E visits, 45,000 hospital admissions and hundreds of lives each year in England.
