The pandemic that is going through the world has made all the focuses are on its causes, effects, and consequences of it. However, there is a reality that has remained unchanged even with the arrival of the coronavirus: in Spain, the leading cause of mortality is cardiovascular disease.
Ischemic heart disease, heart failure, high blood pressure, or obesity are just some of the most common causes of death in our country; all diseases that should not be treated in a specific way but whose approach requires a daily effort and a preventive health routine. This, precisely, is usually the most arduous barrier to overcome, since it is easy for the patient to fall into oblivion or discouragement or lack the willpower to maintain a healthy lifestyle that allows them to combat these pathologies in their day today.
Advances in telemedicine and the implementation of new technologies in different therapies have become great allies in this regard since they make the patient more accompanied and sheltered than ever.
At Sanitas we have been committed, for years, to this digitization of medicine by verifying that it helps to improve people's health, providing them with assistance, knowledge, help, and monitoring at all times. Services such as Monitor your health, offered by BluaU, become a perfect ally to prevent and combat some of the most frequent pathologies, such as diabetes, COPD, arrhythmias, or obesity among others, since it allows the patient to be telemonitored.
Thanks to technological advances and the democratization of smartphones, a large majority of the population have at hand an electronic device with countless uses that are barely known, also in the health field. For example, they are capable of measuring a large number of health values such as blood pressure, heart rate, or blood oxygenation, transmitting this information electronically to doctors so that they can carry out constant and personalized monitoring.
This uninterrupted flow of information allows a more precise diagnosis to be made, to observe the evolution, to have more intervention capacity and room for maneuver in the face of changes that may occur and that will be detected instantly.
The advantages are not only limited to the information obtained by the doctors, but also to the information, understanding, and participation that the patient gets, who can make video consultations through the mobile phone to resolve any doubts that may arise, to better understand their case, its symptoms and implications. In addition, an alert system can be configured to warn you of the occasions when you must take medication or complete an exercise.
All these advances are aimed at the same objective: that the patient, and even his family, feel more involved, supported, and supported in the process of learning to take care of himself and better monitor his health.
This has obvious beneficial consequences, as reflected in a comparative study carried out by Sanitas in which the process of improving the health of patients who used monitoring and others who did not, was evaluated. Sanitas launched the monitoring service under the name Connected Health, today known as Monitor your health, some years ago, which has allowed us to know the advantages of its use. The difference after 12 months was evident: among those who had this Sanitas app, the reduction in blood pressure was 4% in systolic pressure and 5% in diastolic pressure, compared to patients who did not use it. Better data in weight loss was also registered, of around 2 kilos less on average, in the monitored users.
This, therefore, is the present and future of medicine. That is why Sanitas has been betting on the digital vanguard in healthcare for years, a process that could seem distant, which has been surrounded by certain skepticism for years, but which, with the emergence of Covid-19, has become essential in the care and routine of millions of citizens. And not only because it has avoided unnecessary travel and has provided extra security guarantees to patients, but because it has caused many of the prejudices or fears that were around the effectiveness of this form of healthcare approach to break down, which, It will allow us to travel a still almost unexplored path
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