Transcript Summary of Connected Health Symposium

Tufts University
School Of Engineering
Tufts Wireless Laboratory
Connected Health Symposium
Yuping Dong
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Overview
• How information technology can help people manage
chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness, and
age with independence.
• Healthcare reform, payment reform.
• The spread of health phenomena in social networks
• Wireless tech and patient self-management.
• Future healthcare: remote monitoring in 2014.
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Healthcare Reform
• Dr. Altman: 7.5% of US GDP @ $75 billion in 1971, 17%
of GDP @ $2.5 trillion now
Costs shift from federal spending to private spending
Altman’s Law: Most every powerful constituent group favors health
reform – but if it is not their plan, they prefer the status quo.
• Congressman Edward Markey: Independence at Home
10% of the Medicare population has 5+ diseases which account for
50% of the costs. We have to manage that, preserve patient privacy.
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Wireless Tech and Patient SefManagement
• Have payors reimburse, justified by economic savings.
• Change behaviors and delivering information
wireless tech has to be affordable
blurred line between medical conditions and wellness makes cost
savings hard to gauge.
• Delicate balance between wireless solutions and adoption by
clinicians and end users.
• Deliver the right information at the right time is critical for motivating
the patient to adopt it.
• Old people need simple devices.
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Remote Monitoring in 2014
• Honeywell now serving elderly patients with very active
disease. In 2014, broader range of patients with
centralize system and ubiquitous devices.
• Meridian Health: new classes of devices, biosensors of
“band aid” type using wireless technology.
• Qualcomm: change behavior around chronic disease
and use connectivity in social networking and via
healthcare providers to facilitate.
• Pharos Innovations: change behavior with software,
demonstrate value to consumer.
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Get (Your Home) Smart
• Smart house is the nexus of innovation, hardware,
software and health information.
• We are not good at assisting independent living.
• System should include:
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Physiologic sensing
Activity monitoring
Social connectivity
Home automation
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Get (Your Home) Smart
• More tightly connect the senior to others and to be safe.
• Older people are interested in technology.
19% of 65+ have broadband access at home in 2008.
30% of 65+ have broadband access in 2009.
• Robots in smart home.
• Activities of daily living monitoring is growing.
• Homes need something extra to sell and older homes
need to upgrade.
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Home TeleHealth
• Patient engagement can reduce # of doctor
visits. More information more confidence.
• Home telehealth should:
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Reduce cost
Ease of use
Personality
Feasible for different OS.
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SentiCare Pill Station
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Nonin
PureLight Sensors
Pulse Oximeter
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Multipurpose Device
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Cambridge Consultant
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RelayHealth
• Intelligent network connects patients, provider,
pharmacies, payors, pharmaceutical manufacturers and
financial institutions.
• For Patients:
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Online connectivity to providers and pharmacies.
Online access to lab test results.
Online healthcare bill pay.
Secure and actionable personal health records.
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RelayHealth
• For Providers, Payors and Financial Institutions:
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Online business office.
Real-time access to information.
Remittance advice that saves time, prevents manual data entry error.
Statement processing handles ~300 million patients anually.
• For Pharmaceutical Manufacturers:
– Patient education.
– Adherence/Compliance.
– Virtual sampling programs.
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GlobalMedia
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ANT+
• WSN protocol for ultra-low power networking applications in sport,
wellness, home and industrial automation.
• Operates on licensed-free 2.4 GHz ISM band.
• Micro-watt power consumption.
• Self-adaptive network automatically adjusts and synchronizes network
nodes.
• Peer-to-peer, star, tree, and mesh network topologies.
• Inherent data security with 64 bit network key with additional
application layer security definable.
• Immunity from cross-talk.
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