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Video Consultations - Keeping the service running. Are Video consultations for group education the next step?
The Rheumatology therapy team have been using video consultation software in order to continue therapy for our service users.
This Technology has allowed us to continue with new patient referrals and follow ups to provide effective assessment and exercise prescription from home. We have been able to highlight any equipment or splinting needs to be able to deliver a large part of our prescription service.
We have also been provided with "rehab my patient" software which allows users to formulate patient centred exercise programmes from your smartphone, laptop or tablet and quickly email them.
Axial Spondyloarthritis annual reviews have continued where we are able to complete BASDAI, BASFI and some observed BASMI measurements for our service users to monitor disease and guide treatment.
Our Rheumatology therapist has also been involved with screening service users via the BSR Risk stratification tool to determine shielding status. The rheumatology advice line has continued to remain busy with queries and this additional skill mix has helped to manage the volume of service user queries.
Continuous professional development time has continued via microsoft teams alongside clinical discussions and mentoring
We are now considering how we can continue to utilize video consult as to whether education groups could be used via this software or similar software to provide education on our osteoporosis and hyper-mobility events.
What is needed to sustain the change?
The 'ACCURX' and 'Rehab my patient' technologies will need to be continued to be licensed in order to provide this service.
What is your region?
North West
Hi Joe,
Great sounding work going on with you and your team! I almost posted about how we might manage BASMI during these video or phone consults. Glad to hear you are also thinking about this (and experimenting with ways around this). I think the BASMI is too important a tool for movement monitoring and exercise engagement to lose over this period. With regards to exercise engagement any kind of semi-BASMI we can do at present will be effective; however we will have issues for movement monitoring (over time) as any measures undertaken over the video consult will presumably have poor correlation with what might be taken in a face-to-face clinic. In the long-run there should really be a digital way around this (we can monitor heart rate, sleep patterns, etc. on apps, but not the simple movement measures of the BASMI!?), a future project perhaps?
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I wondered if this was a post from our own trust as it reflects fairly accurately what we are doing too. We have utilised the MySpA app for collection of PROMs but we have not had any experience with the Rehab my patient tool.
We are considering setting up virtual MDT clinics for new inflammatory arthritis to include up to 6 patients for delivery of advice and "meet the MDT".
Do you have any experience with this as s communication medium for multiple patients for education?
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