Wearable Health Monitoring Devices Can Be Enhanced By Adding Adaptive Biofeedback And Control Capability

A remote patient monitoring system provides physicians as well as other caregivers the means to view their patients’ medical statuses at any time. These wearable devices monitor a patient’s vital signs, including his or her heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, glucose levels and weight. Remote patient monitoring of chronically ill patients can lower hospital readmission rates: Healthcare providers receive the critical information they need to recognize problems before such issues become life threatening.

Innovations in mobile technology have brought remote healthcare management to the forefront of advanced medical care. The ability to record the cardiac activity of a patient at home has been available for some time. But that method utilized a recording device worn by the patient, which needed to be brought in to a hospital or doctor’s office for a healthcare professional to analyze. Today, real-time monitoring in the patient’s home is a reality.

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

Patient education is needed initially for the use of peripheral monitoring devices, and the investment could be initially pricey. The infrared and sensor technology can be great for caregivers and family members because it is easy to detect falls, injuries, or illness using this system, which would offer immediate care to patients. Lastly, the Glucoboy has helped a sometimes painful task into a game, which has been proven to be effective in maintaining a healthy lifestyle for diabetic children. (Deickman A., Elfrink V., Schlachta-Fairchild L, 2008)

Cutting edge technology like household sensors grow to learn the habits of a senior to ensure they are doing well. If the system doesn’t register the senior moving from their bedroom at a certain hour or other daily routines, an alert will go out to notify proper responders. In other areas of need, Selfhelp understands the importance of interaction. That’s why their Senior Source technology transports seniors into classrooms and activities with skilled teachers and other seniors. By doing so, everyone is able to socialize and think

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

Currently the biggest areas being telehealth for the elderly are diabetic control, heart monitoring, and standard daily vitals. The most interesting piece of equipment used to monitor these is the Healthstats watch (Bartz, 2014). The Healthstats watch monitors pulse, heart rate, O2, sleeping statistics, and patient activity. The only issue that most manufacturers have come across is monitoring blood pressure with a watch because of how much power it consumes.

The typical daily cost for single in patients in hospitals was over $1,700 in 2013, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation [10]. Remote monitoring products such as the BodyGuardian provide the healthcare advantages such as the option to move patients to their home and retain monitoring of their status by doctors and nurses. A paper [11] proposes an original, IoT-aware, smart architecture for automatic monitoring and tracking of patients, personnel, and biomedical devices within medical

Patient wearables offer an excellent example of this new doctor/patient partnership. Patients can not only be monitored by their physicians, they can monitor themselves as wearables present not only data concerning heart rate and blood pressure, but personal information regarding everything from diet to the quality of last night’s sleep. This brings the patient into the loop and encourages him or her to take more responsibility.

Biofeedback is sometimes a very confusing topic. It refers to the use of electronic, medical devices to give more auditory, verbal, and visual information back to the body about how it is working. For example, during biofeedback when a person tries to relax his muscles, he can hear a sound telling the degree of relaxation. Or if a person is to slow his pulse, he can hear or see his pulses more easily than by just feeling the pulse. By hearing the pulse, it is easier to try to manipulate it with his conscious control. This is also done with temperature control. When people are nervous, their hands might get colder or sweaty and warmer.

The Gator Tech smart house at the University of Florida is a laboratory-house created to assist older adults in maximizing independence and maintaining higher quality of life. The entire house is equipped with (a) smart cameras for motion detection, image processing, and control of other in-home devices, (b) smart blinds that automatically close to block sunlight when the air conditioner is on, (c) ultrasonic location tracking transceivers that are installed on the ceiling corners of each room to detect movement, location, and orientation of the resident, (d) smart floor that uses pressure sensors embedded into each tile to detect falls and reports to emergency services, and (f) smart displays for entertainment media and information residents

This author believes by moving the healthcare from hospitals and healthcare centers to the people home can potentially open up new opportunities to continuously monitor and adjust treatment and prevention plans accordingly. Healthcare cost is enormous and continually increasing, by integrating IoT to daily life of people, healthcare providers can detect and monitor the health of people in real-time and apply better preventive methods to reduce health risk factors and consequently the cost of care. The IoT can help people to manage their own life better by knowing their health status in real-time and adjust their lifestyle habits accordingly. The Patient with chronic disease like type I diabetes can continuously monitor their blood glucose level

Authors Jonathan L. Preston, Nickole Brick, and Nicole Landi did a study to determine if ultrasound boifeedback for children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) was efficient. Biofeedback feedbacks are instrumentals that allow clinicians to be able to gather visual information on the client’s performance, which can only target lingual phonemes. This study has very little evidence that support it, but it is expanding to may more research that will be tested in the near future.

Existing wearable health monitoring devices can be enhanced by adding adaptive biofeedback and control capability. This will transform the current wearable health monitoring devices from a passive monitoring device to a real-time treatment assistive device. Such a device is capable of not only collecting, storing, and monitoring raw and synthesised data similar to the current wearable healthcare devices, but can also provide autonomous reconfiguration, controlled treatment processes by using collected data to

The use of automated machines to detect changes in a patient whose medical status is being monitored is one of the greatest features of technology in patient care. In the inpatient setting as well outpatient clinics, nurses, advanced practice nurses and doctors greatly rely on physical changes through sight, touch