The VADWatch™ Program for Hospitals
Quality Assured Services, Inc. (QAS) has introduced its VADWatch program for hospitals-
the efficient way to treat VAD patients in the residential setting.
VADWatch provides:
- All external VAD equipment
- All replacement VAD items (filters, batteries)
- All skin care items for driveline sites
- All insurance adjudication for VAD outpatients
- All registrations for VAD patients with local power and EMS units
And, now QAS is introducing VADWatch™ ,the first remote monitoring service
for VAD patients in the US.
What is VADWatch?
Remote monitoring for VAD patients on indicators like:
- Weight
- Temperature
- Blood Pressure
- INR
Assessment/Education for VAD patients on protocols like:
- Infection (maintenance of driveline sites)
- Nutrition (maintenance of weight gains/losses and healthy nutrition)
- Anticoagulation (maintenance of INR and optimum time-in-range)
- Neurological (assessment of indicators for T.I.A., etc.)
How does VADWatch work?
- Remote monitoring devices placed in the patient's home
- Communications established to Rapid Relay, our clinical data repository
- Nurses, trained in cardiac treatment, monitor indicators
- Secure website for immediate 24/7 access to VAD patient info by hospital staff
- Out-of-range issues immediately reported to the physician and VAD coordinators