Why this GP is tracking his patients in real time from his computer
‘Good general practice is invisible’ says Dr Kean-Seng Lim, who uses home monitoring to keep his patients out of hospital.
A sizeable chunk of patients who visit Dr Kean-Seng Lim can expect to walk out attached to a variety of wearable monitoring devices.
The GP is based in western Sydney’s Mount Druitt, one of the most socially deprived communities in Australia.
But he has become an early adopter of technology allowing him to track everything from an individual patient’s blood pressure, weight, spirometry results to oxygen levels, blood glucose and step count.
Using the CareMonitor platform which he co-founded, he follows the numbers in real time on his computer back in his practice. When the stats need attention, practice staff are alerted by the software using a traffic light system.
