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Objectives: To demonstrate the feasibility of using telehealthcare in a sparsely populated remote area where GP numbers are small.

Details: This was called the AGnES project and took place over 12 months in Mecklenburg, Northern Germany. 48 patients used telehealthcare devices including blood pressure monitor, glucose monitor, one-lead and 12-lead ECG devices. 2 GPs and 3 practice nurses were involved and visited the homes regularly.

Results: 87.4% of the patients accepted AGnES-care as comparable to the usual GP-care. Over the course of the project, the GPs delegated an increasing number of both monitoring and interventional tasks to the AGnES-practice assistants. The GPs agreed that delegating tasks to a qualified practice assistant relieves them in their daily work.

References

• 1. Van den Berg et al. GP-support by means of AGnES-practice assistants and the use of telecare devices in a sparsely populated region in Northern Germany – proof of concept. BMC Family Practice 2009, 10:44doi:10.1186/1471-2296-10-44.