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Medical Technologies of the future !!!

Introduction 

• Introduce 6 technologies that will shape the future of medical industry
• Key areas : 
• Remote Monitoring, 
• Improving patient experience, 
• Miniaturization of technologies > no one wants to wear bulky devices
• Reduce time spent on diagnosis and surgeries
• Painless surgeries
• Future Research
• Reduction in cost

   

1. Swati Satish : 3d Printing of Human Organs

2. Swathi Nimmala : Robotic Drawing of Blood

3. Hiral Shah : Ambulance Drone

4. Chintan : E-Prescribing 

5. Abu : Visimobile Patient Monitoring System > helping paramedics !

6. Puja : future research in ehealth

PubMed Relevant PDF's :

1. The Current Status of mHealth for Diabetes:Will It Be the Next Big Thing?

What is the Article about ?

• Compares Current and Future trends of mobile health to monitor patients  with Diabetes : a pandemic. 

What are the main points of the article ?

• What is m-health ?
• How can m-health be used for diabetes ?
• Outcomes of using mobile technologies
• Future....

Reasons why classmates should read this article.

• Relevant to the topic
• Not too long , only 6 pages
• The article is from 2013
• Diabetes is a pandemic. 
• 2003, 194 million people worldwide, had diabetes. 
• By 2025, this number is projected to increase by 72% to 333 million. 
• There is a greater need to monitor patients regularly so medical care can be delivered in a timely manner. 
• Credible Source : Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
• Graphs, Illustrations, Examples
• Because you we all need a good grade for this course :)

What your classmates will learn from each article.

• Application of e-health to overcome a pandemic. 

2. E-patient Connectivity and the Near Term Future


What is the Article about ?

• importance of connectivity in a continuously advancing world, advances in health care technology and the challenges involved.

What are the main points of the article ?

• Supply/demand mismatch
• Technological advances-Miniaturization of sensors, wireless connectivity, communication tools,
• Challenges-network connectivity and reliability, software development challenges,
• Consumer Technologies Create Data Security and Privacy Concerns, Segmentation and Customization, The Changing Economic Landscape in Healthcare, Workflow Challenges

Reasons why classmates should read this article.

• addresses the role that connectivity and related applications will playing in the next generation of healthcare services

What your classmates will learn from each article.

●     Modern e-technology in future

3 E-health's future frontiers.

What is the Article about ?

• It talks about E-health  progress in Estonia, a developing country, explaining how expanding of Information and Communication Technology helps for future progress and possibilities to reach out the mass population.
  

What are the main points of the article ?

• Example of Estonia country, how they introduced e-health services and tools.  
•  Issue of interoperability

• E health strategist initiating and coordinating efforts for ehealth  

Reasons why classmates should read this article.

• Concise Information about particular developing countries
• Short article
• Methodical Approach to establish e-health services

What your classmates will learn from each article.

• Synchronizing patients information for the benefits patients and professionals
• Importance of interoperability between the hospitals by providing e-ids
• Role of doctors and healthcare professional for information exchange.
• Significant use of mobile device and how to utilize it in developing countries for future collaboration of health services

Explaining the importance of each source 

Hiral 

Trend and future direction in e-health my sub topic is strategic plan of organization or company. In my source is talk about American health information management association is one of the organizations in U.S.A which talking about its plans and core values and purpose. It's important because how it they sharing their mission and idea of vision and talking which area they are going to cover. They are giving much knowledge about their business, demographic, legislation/ regulation, political/ social, technological/science and others key trends.

http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_050165.pdf

pages 6 to 11.

Chintan

The Internet Pharmacy is very important. In the 21st century, it has very limited use and can be utilize much more. Instead of fixing the problem and promoting it, government and respected organizations are working to disqualify it. These source is taken from WHO, which is well known non profit international organization. It also reflects how the member of WHO organization see this issue and what is their approach to this topic. Basically the source based on the findings of the global survey on eHealth and it discusses the challenges and advances on this issue.Internet and Human factors affecting E-health pages 10 to 14

Puja

The source of document is reliable source as it’s coming from Global IT organization that shows the yearly report. As it is very important for healthcare workers to know how to manage the growing data, the following document helps to understand about how the global IT organization works with the informatics and what are the current issues IT field is facing to manage information. It shows how the global IT usage has grown in past 10 years and how it will emerge into next 10-15 years, giving an overall idea to students about increase use of technology in future and issues that would lie in Healthcare field. Emerging issues of hyperconnected world

pages 47 to 50

Abu

My subtopic is “Key Trends in eHealth to Propel Health Transformation and Education”. My source is important because information and communication technologies (ICT) is rapidly spreading globally and healthcare professionals should keep using the current technology. Subtopic is important to the student to know how eHealth is helping the health professionals and individuals to get the information about their illness, medication uses, and reach health professional from anywhere. The source explains how to transform eHealth to the healthcare professionals as well as for the individuals. The source about electronic health record, telehealth and telemonitoring. The source is important to explain the eHealth.

Key trends in e-health to propel health transformation and education pages 6 to 9

Explanation of PDF Relevance

HCM 934 - Health Information and Communication Systems - Weekend

Swati Satish's PDF :  Ehealth in resource limited settings

To explain relevance , would like to elaborate on the following :

Which is the subtopic impt ?

• A lot has been talked about new emerging technologies
• Robotic Surgeries
• Imaging
• Diabetes Lens
• Remote Monitoring of Patients
• Fitbit and other sensors to monitor ones health
• Million $$$ question do you think any of the above technologies are even relevant when the question in consideration is : DEVELOPING and UNDER DEVELOPED NATIONS? 

What is the source about ? Explain the impt of each source ?

• The document is a newsletter / publication by PATH.
• PATH - An international nonprofit organization working towards global health innovation
• PATH primarily works in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs.

How does the source relate to the subtopic ?

• The non profit organisation with its focus in developing countries and health seemed like a logical fit to the subtopic
• The document talks about current and future trends in developing countries
• Challenges and benefits of e-health in developing countries
• Current interventions in e-health in developing countries

Why is the source impt? If the source is from a larger doc , what is the doc about ?

This version of the news letter by PATH talks about the following :

CONCLUSION

While advantages of ehealth, mhealth and other online tools is pretty evident and self explanatory one must do research to prove that such e initiatives are cost effective, provide great impact, easy to use, increase productivity and solve a problem !

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Strategy for selecting reading material

The following strategy will be used by the Trends and Future Directions Group :

1. We will break our topic down into 6 subtopics. 

2. The subtopics will be brainstormed within the group. Brainstorming will ensure to cover relevance of the topic and other key takeaways that we each had from the reading session.

3. Once subtopics have been identified, we will each from our abundant resources select 4 pages each that best explain the subtopic.

4. We will put together the 25 pages and share with the rest of the class the complete list.

Swati - Ehealth in Resource limited settings

Hiral - Core Values of Organisations working towards Trends in E-health

Puja - Emerging issues of hyperconnected world

Chintan - Internet and Human factors affecting E-health


Swathi - Current Applications and Future Directions of e-health

Abu - Key trends in e-health to propel health transformation and education

Puja's Individual Post

PDF Title:   The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Healthcare
PDF Title: Benchmarking Deployment of eHealth among General Practitioner (2013)
PDF Title:Trends "future directions"eHealth review 2013 Filetype:pdf
PDF Title: Trends "future directions"eHealth review 2013 Filetype:pdf

Page numbers:
Page #        From 113 to 170
Page #:    From 8 to 65
Page #:    From 373 to423
Page #:    From 47 to97

List of links:
Link:           http://www.ehealthnews.eu/images/stories/Impact_of_eHealth.pdf
Link:      http://www.sanita.ilsole24ore.com/pdf2010/Sanita2/_Oggetti_Correlati/Documenti/Lavoro-e-Professione/Finalreport.pdf?uuid=c5283d94-dabc-11e3-84c0-4486710f8eb3
Link:      https://www.academia.edu/2866970/Health_Communication_Trend_s_and_Future_Directions
Link: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_IT_Report_2012.pdf


First Blog

The three most helpful things
1. Importance of information exchange and interoperability:
Even today, both in developed and developing countries, their is difficulty in having easy access and exchange of patient's information, which is the most important aspect of healthcare. Adopting new ways to exchange information through the use of technology can, not only help in better organizing the information but also to provide right information about the right patient at right time by elimination of errors.
2. Electronics facilitate better record keeping:
Electronic Health record keeping serves, to be the most effective and efficient way to build records that helps in better formatting and securing of data. Major advantage of building electronic health record is to acquire more details about patients assessment, history, prescriptions and other information, with well- integrated and efficient way that gives universal access; reducing the processing time of clinical data. Electronic collection of data also, helps care providers to have standardized information about patients, that increases better monitoring and utilization of the clinical data, billing optimization, the quality of cost and increase in workers productivity.
3. Potential drawbacks of electronic/ computerized medical records:
Use of technology does prove helpful in providing undeniable  benefits to medical record keeping, but it also does have some risk factors attached, like tampering of records, fraudulent entries, unauthorized disclosure of patients records, crashes of servers, lack of technical experiences and accidental deletion of data. Hence, the major concern, eHealth based systematic medical industry has, is to overcome malpractices both ethical and technical to improve quality of care, patient safety and public health.


Second Blog
The three important things:
1. An Integrated Framework:
To understand how among different countries, has been able to adopt eHealth, a set of model or framework was developed that would, undertake gaining of better knowledge of individual, meso and macro level variables of different countries. Under this framework, a set of questionnaire was develop that targeted both the measurement and explanatory dimension that would give in depth knowledge and statistical data for performing analysis. Again the main focus, for the model to work was by putting a set of questionnaire that would measure the availability and usage specific infrastructure that concerned Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Telehealth and Personal Health Record.
2.Difference between stages of awareness and use of eHealth systems:
Among the test conducted between 2007 and 2013 in the study, it showed increase use of computers, which is more likely with the awareness and availability of the technology. Also, there was a substantial increase in many other factors, like giving out ePrescriptions, electronically lab reports and use of computers during consultations. This changes in the functionalities related to the storage of patients medical records, usage of technology to make appointments, interact through emails, transfer of prescriptions, and other functions; to make optimum use of technology for easy and effective way to deal with medical services between the countries globally. Also, the study shows how the graph of availability and adoption of these information exchange and use of technology has evolved throughout these years.

3. Dimensions of overall score:
The whole survey was conducted to analyze the data, about how well the eHealth systematics, like use of  electronic storage of individual patients data, use of computers during consulting patient, decision support from other care providers, prescription to pharmacy and many other functionalities have grown to analyze the comparability among the different countries that shows the progress of eHealth system, in changing trends of future medical system.

Third Blog
Importance of collaboration of health information and bioinformatics   
Bio informatics involves variety of skills for the processing, storage, analysis and modeling of many types of biological data requires an understanding of complex biological systems and their quantitative data.  Thus with the advancement with the technology it has opened doors to support the automation of modern instruments that holds huge amount of biomedical data.  These not only assist clinicians for better patient care but also, overcome the hurdles consisting of other associated demands like analyzing of data, societal and ethical issues and other cost effective and improved management of health information.
 Relation of Bioinformatics and Health Communication
 Altman (2001) defines bioinformatics as “the study of how information is represented and transmitted in biological systems, starting at the molecular level”. And according to the Witte and associates (1996), health communication is defined as “the exchange, transmission, perception, and/or internalization of health-related information, within varying social and physical environments, regarding factors that influence health and/or health-related behaviors”. This highlights health communication that represents multidisciplinary side of communication that involves different levels of analysis.  However, both bioinformatics and health communication are works parallel in where, bioinformatics targets on its core biomedical research, through the technological channels, clinical, public health whereas health communication have relatively more focus on two way interaction with in-person communication, non-internet based mass-media that identifies with the direct interest of the population.
Access to Healthcare
The most challenging aspect of healthcare is to get access of the health care services, and with digital and electronic media it has become easy to face such challenges especially for the uninsured and other population. Moreover, access to health services encompasses four components: coverage, services, timeliness, and workforce. Therefore, better interactive information application program should be provided in public places, including schools that give consumer-patients with access to health information, diagnoses, and treatments. Also, more focus should to design a universal model that could meet the needs of low literacy and incomes, and who are unable to access broadband networks.



Fourth blog
Emerging Issues for our Hyperconnected World
Realizing that with the fast growing internet usage and its applications specially with technologies like sensor, nano or payment arrangements in the market gives out an exponential  growth of stored as well as transmitted data that has strength of expanding with the use of networks. Here is, the research consultancy IDC considered that, in 2010, the amount of data transmitted around the world exceeded 1 zettabyte for the first time, while estimating that the size of the digital universe now doubles every two years. Hence there is an increasing and significant new investments are needed in many forms of information infrastructure. There are also issues that lies at role of regulators that calls for improving and updating infrastructure, content and many telecommunication regulators with different approached by national governments. With the explosive growth in growth forecast for connected devices, numbering and addressing issues has become a major concern in providing all these network-enabled devices with their own addresses. Hence there are significant issues that are surrounded for getting access and use of digital management under eHealth systematics.
Setting collaborative principles for all the operating systematics:
To come up with a broader way to approach different issues, steps should be taken that allow operators to manage traffic with high levels of transparency toward customers, this will require operators to provide a high-quality best-effort service with minimal speeds, allow operators to provide differentiated services to edge players that share the same physical infrastructure. Again, with the high demand, operators will need to price services flexibly to achieve the levels of cash flow that will allow them to make the infrastructure investments. Also, with the given need for increased massive expansion of the Internet, regulators should consider implementing approaches that lower the cost of inputs controlled by government policies, such as the cost of spectrum and rights of way.
Transformative effect of mobile broadband
To improve the reach, productivity, and outcomes within the healthcare sector, the combination of highly personalized and pervasive experience that enables individual with mobile smartphones and other always-on, always-connected devices could be used for a transformative way to bring more easily, quickly, and cost-effectively bring about the benefits associated with access to comprehensive healthcare services to their citizen.