Patient Education
OVERVIEW
Remote Monitoring Patient Service
Remote monitoring of your heart device allows you to send device information to your physician or clinic through a small monitor. Your clinic can review this information on the secure CareLink™ Network and take appropriate action.
This allows you to stay connected to your physician from the comfort of your own home.
What is remote monitoring?
Overview
With an implanted heart device, ongoing care doesn't end at the implant. It's important to maintain a connection with the doctor or clinic for the life of the device. One of the ways to do this is through remote monitoring.
What is remote monitoring?
Remote monitoring is a way for the implanted heart device to communicate with the doctor or clinic using a small monitor. This information is sent directly to the doctor or clinic providing them with the information to routinely check the device from wherever the patient is located.
Remote monitoring is prescribed by your doctor to access information that allows them to manage your heart condition and monitor your implanted heart device. The shared information may communicate abnormal heart rhythms or issues with your heart device to your doctor.
How remote monitoring works
Step 1: Schedule
Your clinic schedules dates to receive information from your device.
Step 2: Send
Device information is sent automatically* for wireless ICDs and Pacemakers.
*Some pacemakers require these sends to be performed manually by the patient.
Step 3: TRANSMIT & REVIEW
Device information travels from the remote monitor/ heart app to your clinic. Your clinic reviews the device information on a secure website.
MYCARELINK HEART MOBILE APP
Medtronic pacemakers enabled with BlueSync™ technology can communicate directly with the MyCareLink Heart™ mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. The MyCareLink Heart™ mobile app enables a patient to stay connected to the clinic providing freedom to live life — uninterrupted.
- Feel confident that the clinic receives device data because the status of transmissions can be seen in the app.
- Access information about the pacemaker — including battery life, implant date, pacemaker name, model number, serial number, and clinic information — and feel comfortable answering questions when asked.
- Engage in healthy behavior.
- Track physical activity level with data that the app gets from the pacemaker.
- Record weight, blood pressure, and heart rate — and track these measurements over time.
- Keep a record of the symptoms to share with the clinician at an in-office visit.
- Access the answers to frequently asked questions about living with a pacemaker.
Please keep the mobile device and software current to stay connected to the clinic.
MYCARELINK RELAY™ HOME COMMUNICATOR (24960)
The MyCareLink Relay™ Home Communicator automatically sends data from the heart device directly to the clinic using cellular data or Wi-Fi. MyCareLink Relay™ Home Communicator is compatible with Bluetooth enabled devices.
LEARN ABOUT RELAY
MYCARELINK™ PATIENT MONITOR (24952)
The MyCareLinkTM monitor is designed to fit on the bedside table. It sends heart device information to the clinic from almost anywhere in the world — as long as there is a cellular signal.
READ ABOUT PATIENT MONITORThese products are not a substitute for appropriate medical attention in the event of an emergency. Use of these products is subject to Internet connectivity and access, and service availability. The monitor must be on and in range of the implanted device to receive CareAlert™ Notifications.
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