Lakeridge Health has partnered with the Ontario Telemedicine Network to monitor COVID-19 patients in Durham Region who have been discharged from the hospital.
Patients will download an app in which they will report their symptoms on a daily basis. Community Care-registered nurses will monitor the data seven days a week to ensure patients are healthy and do not need to go back to the hospital. “What this is designed to do is when they leave the hospital emergency department, they still have a connection back to the system,” said Jeff Gardner, Director of Clinical Care Programs at Central East LHIN. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Patients will get an alert to their phone within an hour if there’s