Cardiology smartphone application: Monitoring your heart at home
How we can help you
If you have been in our hospital with heart problems, we may offer you a smartphone app to monitor your heart when you go home. We call this remote monitoring.
The app helps to keep track of your blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen levels and weight. Our doctors and nurses review these numbers from the hospital. If there are any early signs of a problem, the app alerts our team and we will contact you.
This service will:
- provide you with quick access to your health care team
- help you learn to manage your heart condition at home
- reduce the need for you to come to hospital in the future.
The remote monitoring app is available to all patients who meet certain criteria.
If you meet the criteria, our Community Management Centre staff will contact you. They will loan you equipment including a blood pressure monitor, weighing scales and a pulse oximeter which measures your oxygen level. They will educate you about the equipment and smartphone app and answer your questions.
You can use the remote monitoring service for 6 months. After this, your cardiologist or nurse practitioner will decide with you when you are managing your condition well and no longer need this service.