A phone-based daily check-in that tells care teams which discharged patients need attention today. Patients get their recovery plan in plain language and answer a few questions on their own phone. Nurses get one ranked list, with the reason next to every name.
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Many patients leave hospital and then quietly get worse at home. Discharge is too often a "send and pray" event. Within hours, patients forget much of their instructions — studies report 40–80% of medical information is forgotten immediately (Kessels, J R Soc Med, 2003). Most apps assume health literacy that recovering patients (elderly, medicated, exhausted) simply do not have.
In a large US Medicare study, about one in five patients was back in hospital within 30 days (Jencks et al., NEJM 2009). Not because treatment failed. Because the safety net collapsed the moment they walked out the door.
Alongside the check-in product, we run a research programme on whether changes in a patient's voice could one day give care teams an earlier sign of deterioration. This is research. It is not clinically validated, it is not part of the pilot product, and nothing in the check-in product depends on it.
A few taps a day on the phone you already have. Your recovery plan in plain words. If an answer is a warning sign, your care team sees it.
With the patient's consent, a family member can follow how recovery is going instead of guessing.
One list, sorted by who needs you first, with the reason next to every name. Every alert has an owner and a deadline.
No devices to buy, hand out or collect. A follow-up routine that is written down and logged. Small enough to start with one ward.
Most remote-monitoring products are built around measuring devices. Tether starts from the phone the patient already owns and the follow-up the ward already wants to do.
No device to procure, ship or collect after discharge, and no app store. The ward gives the patient a link and a one-time code.
The sorting is a short list of written rules. A clinician can read why a patient is red, and disagree.
A patient who stops answering is flagged too. Two days without a check-in lands in the same list as a red answer.
Where Tether does not fit: emergencies, diagnosis, referral and waiting-list management, and long-term chronic care. It is built for the first weeks after discharge.
Tether is not open to the public yet. It reaches patients through the hospital or clinic that discharges them.
If you have been in hospital, look after someone who has, or work in care yourself, leave your email and we will tell you when Tether is available where you live.
Medical staff who want to try Tether with their own patients can use the form for care teams further down.
We only need an email address. Please do not send us any health information.
For hospital wards, primary care, municipal care and private providers. If your team would like to try Tether, tell us here. It takes two minutes and commits you to nothing.
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