Hamilton, Ontario based m-Health Solutions ramps up technology solutions to monitor cardiac patients in their home
m-Health Solutions (mHS) in Hamilton, Ontario has been providing virtual and mobile cardiac diagnostics and monitoring since 2010. With COVID-19, m-Health Solutions quickly pivoted to meet the needs of doctors/clinics/hospitals and patients.
As holter departments in hospitals across Ontario closed, mHS established an on-line portal so that doctors virtually seeing patients from their homes could quickly and securely refer patients and receive reports back.
Devices were shipped directly to patients for a hook-up. Virtual assistance was provided by the mHS team. Hospitals quickly realized that the “walking well” patients coming to hospital for services has greatly changed. mHS has now established long-term contracts for continued virtual services with many hospitals in Ontario. CorHealth, in a March 31st memo, also recognized the need for alternative settings for cardiac diagnostics. They strongly encouraged that remote/home Electrocardiogram (ECG) Holter Monitoring applications should be used to support the detection of atrial fibrillation in stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA) patients. mHS was an organization that was identified that can provide this level of service.