Development Of Technology Prototype For Home Care

With the main goal of creating requirements for an application that would provide a more efficient and effective way for a patient to control their disease, my research required me to work with the Chief Technology Officer, technologists, medical professionals, and patients to better understand the key challenges that are affecting how people manage their chronic diseases. The use of technology to provide more efficient health care has many opportunities. The company is now looking at how to extend this work to help Syrian refugees currently in camps within Turkey.

As consumers utilize smartphones, tablets, and other devices for other functions like social media and email, they are starting to look at these features to assist them with their healthcare. Mobile body area network devices will be a growing trend in the coming years as a way to get patients engaged in their healthcare and also to give providers routine updates on the status of patients with chronic conditions. As DeGaspari (2014) indicates, these devices can lead to improved functionality for other devices used in hospitals, such as sensors for monitoring patients that might get up and wander or be a fall risk. Telemedicine will continue to grow as payers, providers, and patients all start to realize the mutual benefits that can be

The emergency department in the modern hospital is one of the most complex clinical settings to operate. According to Johnson, Sensei, & Capasso (2012), this department is an intersection of the diagnosis and treatment of emergency cases. As a result, it experiences immense volumes of patients every day. However, in most hospitals, patients visit the facilities with an indication of what they might be suffering from. Specifically, they use their iPhones to get a list of conditions that they might be having (Boncana, 2016). This method of detection has come to be known as mHealth. In this regard, mHealth, rather mobile health, is a method that patients use to enhance their health and medical practices via the use of mobile technology. The cell phones used in this approach are equipped with medical/health software, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and patient monitoring devices.

Users requiring medical care, typically will find the nearest facility providing the services they require, and must contact the clinic to initiate an appointment request. Once the individual has arrived to attend the appointment, instead of promptly receiving care, the individual must fill out many forms to meet the protocol that all patients must be expected to complete. Research from the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security Research, studied the lacking functionality of the current healthcare system, the authors studied the effectiveness of a mobile program.“The current system is

The first group that will incorporate the new CM technology into day-to-day work is the State's Vermont Chronic Care Initiative (VCCI) - a statewide team working to provide intensive care management to high-risk/high-cost Medicaid members. They comprise the primary group of end-users for Release 1, and this document provides evidence of their learning and readiness to use the CM system after R1 Final deployment.

Today, the company has built a powerful platform for home healthcare that integrates wearable, sensors, voice technology and intuitive mobile apps and desktop interfaces for patients monitoring system at home. In addition, CareKit Health allows complex patients with chronic diseases to receive high quality care at home that results in improving

The health care industry has become increasingly reliant on technology. From medical translation tools to mobile apps, these devices are helping healthcare institutions save money and improve patient treatment.

Homecare management is 100% home care system for both large and small homecare organizations that generate processes from patient intake to billing and accounts receivables. Health record management EHR automatically clinical decides to support at the point of care, a clinical desktop, and nearly 800 physician reviewed care guides to ensure effective and efficient patient care. It enables home health companies, hospice centers, and post-acute care centers to track all patient referrals to a single entry system. (allscripts.com)

Choosing your platform: With many diverse styles of computer systems found with a health care facility finding an application that can integrate across multiple healthcare organizations is

The healthcare industry is starving for a simple and reliable means of communication. Caregivers continue to struggle to reach each other on a daily basis, despite the abundance of technology available today. A communication strategy adopted by many healthcare organizations is to utilize mobile devices. The use of personal mobile devices today are remarkably high. Most of the population uses a cell phone. The challenge is how to transition caregivers to use mobile devices as an effective and reliable means of communication. These complexities involved in health care communication protocols are overwhelming and require careful consideration to develop an effective solution. Detailed planning must be exercised to ensure a quality product is provided

With care recipients set up with health monitoring technologies at home, spouses and children are likely to become involved in the caring process and informal caregivers may have to assist kinspersons with advanced care needs by means of sophisticated technology. This paper investigates some of the ethical implications of a near-future shift from institutional care to technology-assisted home care and the subsequent impact on the care recipient and formal- and informal care

mHealth has the potential to change every aspect of the traditional health care system. It could provide a more effective health care delivery system and be cost saving with relatively limited resources. For consumers, mHealth proposes the potential of improved convenience, more active involvment in their own care, and greater personalization. For clinicians, mHealth could lead to more accurate, improved patient care and lesser demand of their time. Nevertheless, mHealth is currently between the early adopters and early majority, the chasm. To cross this chasm, a top-down strategy is needed to match mHealth’s bottom-up approach by app developers. mHealth stakeholders need to provide a roadmap for implementation that confirms its benefits to

SMART platform project was then created to achieve the goals of 1) Develop a user interface which allows “iPhone-like” substitutability for medical apps based upon shared basic components; and 2) Create a set of services that enables efficient data capture, storage, retrieval and analytics, which are scalable to the national level and respectful of institutional autonomy and patient privacy. Mandel et al. (2016) described SMART as an interoperability project with the distinctive goal of developing a platform to enable medical applications to be written once and run unmodified across different healthcare IT systems.

Overall patient’s perceptions of tele-home care are resoundingly position. Tele-homecare information can also empower homebound patients with chronic diseases to make informed decisions about their disease as well as reduce the burden currently experienced by their formal and informal caregivers. Patients felt that tele-homecare promoted daily self-monitoring activities, and they were satisfied that the clinicians were monitoring their tele-homecare readings daily. Patients report an increase sense of security by having tele-access to their clinicians and from knowing the clinician able to facilitate daily remote monitoring, surveillance, and support, which otherwise would not have been possible without tele-homecare technology. Continuity of

While software selection criteria were not in scope for this effort, it does warrant discussion on the overall availability of specialty software for the medical industry on iOS, Android and Windows platforms. Currently, most of the “MCA’s” or Medical Clinical Assistant platforms operate in a Windows-only environment, as do most of the key medical records and billing platforms in the medical field. The cost of custom software development to build a mobile solution is far beyond the budget of most local hospitals and not an endeavor to be undertaken lightly.