Sam is in hospital, recovering from surgery. There is a high-tech distance bracelet on his wrist that can monitor his blood pressure, pulse oximetry, breathing and temperature, and also send an immediate warning to his nurse if a problem occurs. Suddenly, her nurse's smartphone application beeps, advising her that Sam's temperature has just risen to 101 degrees Fahrenheit, a sign that something might not be right.
Meanwhile, Debra, a patient at home, receives a cell phone message that it’s time to breathe into her breathing simulator (spirometer). The doctor's office care coordinator reviews the data panel on Debra's results and is warned if the result goes beyond the safe parameter, instructing her about the treatment.
And Linda, an elderly patient with mild dementia, just woke up, and her alarming device reminds her to take morning medicine. The sensor in her pill dispenser confirms this, and the alarm says: “We’ll make sure your daughter knows that you took the medicine this morning. By the way, did you have breakfast? ”
What is intellectual care? The emergence of advanced, patient-oriented technologies and the innovative integration of these technologies are at the heart of sensible care. “For me, sensible care means going beyond simple rule-based decisions (such as cross-checking allergies or alerting patients when their medicines should) actively integrating traditionally unrelated data sources to care for a patient,” says Naresh Ramarajan, MD, founder and chief medical officer of Navya, an organization that helps patients make cancer treatment decisions with a step-by-step sensible care system.
For example, intelligent decision systems should be able to take into account patient preferences for therapy with fewer side effects, as well as the best results and potential costs. They should be able to integrate the best results of clinical trials and the latest international guidelines. “The intelligent care system may even search the database to find similar patients for whom the treatment was successful,” says ramarajan. “Then he would synthesize all this to make a list of options with the reasons behind each option.”
This data can help patients make smart, informed choices. “As mobile application developers, we often receive more requests from doctors and hospitals, which include the need to make their patient care more intelligent and innovative,” says Dulio Denis, mobile software manager at Blue Label Labs, a leader in the development of mobile applications, tablets, watches and television.
Application developers are working with healthcare customers, who recognize that matching consumer technologies in mobile phones and promoting new applications in what the hospital can do with cloud computing, have reached a crossroads where providers can be more patient-oriented. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we get to a place where medical care works as well as social media communication systems,” says Denis.
Online medical things?
Just as the Internet of Things now combines technology with life (turning on your thermostat, a warning about when the milk is gone), the Internet of medical things can do the same for healthcare. After all, women diagnose their own pregnancies for three decades, so patients using our latest technology should certainly be able to wade down their throats and send a sample for the streptococcus test without visiting the doctor’s office, thereby saving both the patient and doctor's money. Intellectual care can also provide safer, more efficient patient care, simplifying procedures that provide smarter sound advice and provide improved safety, education, and service.
Roy Smith, MD, a cancer surgeon and founder of Valence Health, a company that provides healthcare professionals with a full range of turnkey solutions for the care of valuable values that "The devices that we are going to place in our bodies in the future will be much more complex and will give us ideas that we never thought we would get."
According to Orbita, a leader in innovative cloud technologies for connected home healthcare, the intelligent healthcare industry will soon introduce ubiquitous wireless connectivity. The widespread use of smartphones and the growing array of connected touch-enabled devices that measure and track personal data about wellness therapy, test results and health reminders now allow us to use health scenarios that we never dreamed of were possible several years ago.
Intelli-health optimizes both social computing and data analytics, as well as content and experience management, improving results for patients around the world.
Technologies include:
• Nosocomial distance bracelets that monitor vital signs and warn employees of immediate changes
• Interactive systems that respond faster to hospitalized patients using smartphones and applications, rather than the old-fashioned call button,
• Smartbeds that can monitor position and comfort and alert staff about problems. Hand hygiene systems that can improve infection control practices and warn clinicians about the need for disinfection before entering each room
• Digital delivery of individual patient education information
• Applications that allow patients to fill out prescriptions from their hospital beds before discharge.
• Hand-held ultrasonic devices that allow patients to scan their own bodies and send results to the radiologist
• Self-tests for medical conditions such as strep throat, STDs and high cholesterol.
