Connected Health and the Digital Age of Medicine
Rose Echesi
Grand Canyon University: AMP-450V
6/19/16
Digital Medicine
• Digital medicine is the convergence of modern medicine such as new vaccines and methods of curing illnesses with modern technology such as smart watches, smartphones and the Internet, to name a few • “Digital Medicines may enable improved patient medication adherence and better informed physician decision-making to tailor treatment to the patient’s needs. (2015)”
Digital Medicine cont.
• The first Digital Medicine Drug Application approved by the FDA was “Otsuka’s ABILIFY for serious mental illness, embedded with the Proteus® ingestible sensor in a single tablet to digitally record ingestion. (2015)” • Data is shared with
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• Its participatory in nature. • Creates avenues for realistic plan with a likelihood of success • It encourages dialogue and reflection. • Assumptions are always challenges or room for assumption to be challenged. • Creates room for high level of ownership. • It create solid plan of action. • Empowers a fact base approach • Emphasis documentations
Impact the technology will have on future health care delivery • As the population increasing everyday, there aren’t enough health care practitioners to tend to all of them, despite the growth of the health care industry • Digital Medicine will be a vital part of society given the practicality of one’s health to be monitored and shared to their providers without the hassle of a travel to the doctor’s office
Five key technology impacts on healthcare delivery: • Investing in procurements of medical devices. • Numerous data storage for information through HER’ • Processing of different information from multiple avenues. • Electronic medical records allowing patients/physicians interaction in a limited form with doctors facial visit. • Digital diagnostic dictation of illness for patients that needs home care without hospital visit.
Clinical Operating System
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• cOS is the first of its kind in healthcare. • The OS is built on supply chain logistics with a grid service oriented architecture which combines the deliver and payment systems with knowledge thus allowing the delivery of care affordable.
Real-time data and outcome-focused planning.
Clinical Operating System (cOS) • Through the integrated operational, financial and clinical information offered by Clinical Operating System (cOS), better coordination of patient data is encouraged. • This encourages better planning and delivery of appropriate healthcare that ends with optimal health outcome.
Technological Impact on the
The limitations are to be addressed such as lack of infrastructure, high start-up cost and optimal funding need to be allocated. At this point of time it is apposite to to plan for the future through this recommendations using the telehelath, good governance, maintain good infrastructure, patient awareness and implementing the laws. Implementations of all this will transform the current health care into technological advanced health care. There by reaching being more feasible to clinicians and patients.
Many healthcare organizations had to implement an electronic health records system (EHR) to meet certain guidelines set forth by the government. This was a technology that the clinic implemented years ago to meet the needs of the patient, the requirements of the insurance companies, lean processes, and government regulations. This software helped also look for opportunities to treat our patients better and track data for population health. HG Clinic is investing in a new billing system that will allow them to track patient data better and improved billing process. These are just examples of opportunities that the clinic implemented and are continuously evaluating their current software and equipment and looking for opportunities for
The health care providers are able to quickly finish the patient charting. The Electronic Medical Records allows you to have flexibility to schedule more patients
Since its startup in 2005 its mission to disrupt the slow moving world of health care by providing a free service of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to doctors and their facilities. This system will benefit doctors by cutting down cost, decrease medical errors, decrease mishandled or forgotten messages. It will help the overall goal of medical errors. It improves accuracy through record legibility and record
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets security standards for safeguarding important patient health information that is being stored and maintained in analog and digital forms. As new technologies continue to facilitate the healthcare industry’s transition to paperless processes, health care providers, insurance companies, and other institutions are also growing increasingly dependent on electronic information systems to manage their HIPAA compliance programs. As a result, the safety and security of sensitive health data has become a major concern across the board. Security Risks and Challenges Today, health care professionals are using technology extensively in almost every aspect of the practice.
The following statement best surmises meaningful use: “meaningful use suggests that better healthcare does not come solely from the adoption of technology itself, but through interoperability or the exchange and use of health information to best inform clinical decisions at the point of care”. (Martin et al. (2011) pg. 52.
NJOROGE FRANCIS HIM-500-Q2637 Healthcare Informatics 17TW2 4-1 Activity: Clinical Information Systems a. What is a CIS A Clinical information system is a computer based system that collects, stores, analyze and makes data available in the care environment therefore assisting caregivers to make informed decisions on healthcare issues. A CIS will assist an organization in workflow management as it will make it easier for different caregivers and support staff to work with the same patent record simultaneously. It will also reduce duplication, for example, Vital signs entered into a CIS are available to different caregivers reducing the need for different caregiver to recheck, also these readings can be cross-checked against historical values
Electronic Health Records and Patient Confidentiality Technology has become an essential part of our everyday life therefore, it makes sense that doctors and hospitals get rid of the old fashioned paper charting and use technology to access patient records. Electronic health records (EHR) provide quick access to information, as doctors no longer have to wait for other providers to fax previous records to them. The accessibility of Electronic Health Records assist medical providers to make quick medical care decisions, by accessing previous care provided to patients including treatment and diagnosis. Quick access to information through EHR enables health care providers to treat patients faster as there is no need for records to be mailed or
Mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones, smartphones, tablets, wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, RFID, NFC) are now common-place and support a rapidly growing set of applications (Vogel, Viehland, Wickramasinghe, & Mula, 2013). Therefore, health Information technology will help better coordinate all-inclusive personalized care. This will help physicians and patients have better access to medical care and services. To keep the lines of communication open between physicians and patients, communications could be offered through a secure email. Patients are also able to access their medical information through web portals.
Depending on the type of office and the patients there in, will determine what electronic health system you will need. Some doctors have patients that need a high level of care and lots of tests and other documented information, like cardiology. Other offices might be able to use a simple program because they don 't have many patients or the patients they do have don 't require extensive documentation. You have to consider the amount of time you may, or may not have to train the staff and get all the information transferred. Once the needs of the facility are determined, it is then important to decide on a system that will coincide.
The healthcare industry generates a great amount of data every day, as a form of record keeping, patient care, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Just a decade ago, all this data was stored in the form of hard copy form, now it is rapidly transforming to digital data which is called EMR (Electronic Medical Record). The digitalization of the healthcare has not just reduced cost of care, but also improved quality of care due to the abundance data that organizations receive from the EMR to identify the flaws in their system. I work in the healthcare industry where improving quality of care is our primary goal. We use software called eCW , which is an integrated system.
The technological advancements have not only helped nurses to be better informed, but have also helped the clients to be better informed. Informed patients and families can help the nurses and HCPs by speaking up about symptoms they have noticed that the health care team may have been unable to witness or may have look past. Technology being available to everyone is mostly a good luxury, at the same time, many people can be misinformed and cause more trouble demanding treatments or care that are unsuitable for them because they read about it online. 3.
“Technology and the Future of Healthcare.” Journal of Public Health Research, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1 Dec. 2013,
Patients who are getting medical imaging done are invariably under the care of multiple healthcare providers. Their medical team may consist of the primary care physician, the technician or radiologist who took the images, and one or more specialists, such as oncolologis, neurologists, or orthopedic doctors. Because DICOM can display images in standard file formats, such as JPEG and TIFF, medical information sharing is possible and can be instant, so that patients can receive more timely and informed counseling from all members of the medical team (Etiam,
Improved communication technologies have increased demand/supply of better healthcare, such as through telehealth. Telehealth is defined as the use of electronic technology (i.e. computers and mobile devices) and digital information to provide healthcare and telecommunication at a distance, which means that the 'receiver ' is not physically present with the 'sender ' (MayoClinic, 2014). Telehealth is able to provide and expand health and medical help and give advantages, as well as reduce limitations, to the current health system. Three types of current and proposed telehealth application types are education, counselling, and homecare (Hebda & Czar, 2013). Education Education applications of telehealth, also termed as tele-education,