FOLLOWING
IS MY PAST TAKE ON THIS SUBJECT :
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Digital Delivery
of Drugs [ 11 Oct
2015 ]
Extract :
WHO ( which doctor ) , prescribed WHAT drug ( drug name ) made
by WHO (
name of drug manufacturer ) , to WHOM (patient
name ) , and WHY ( disease
diagnosis ) , and WHEN ( date ) and sold by WHICH ( drug store )
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Modicare : A
Game Changer [ 01 Feb 2018 ]
Extract :
Medicalchain, on
the other hand, uses blockchain technology to store
and share health records securely, allowing for easy and safe
transfer of information between providers and patients.
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Healthcare : The
Unfolding Story [ 19 June 2018 ]
Extract :
Using such massive data base, can BIG DATA / Artificial Intelligence / Machine
Learning ,
figure out what " Customized healthcare / Medical treatment / Supplementary diet "
should be " prescribed " for each human on this earth
?
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Will “ Ayushman
Bharat “ listen ? [ 14 Nov 2018 ]
Extract :
When
that happens , expect the AI to do the following :
# Guide your family doctor to prescribe the best-suited
medicine for each member of
Your family
# Recommend some “ preventive “ medicines before a disease manifests itself !
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Health Data Vault [ 16 June 2019 ]
Extract :
All the Health Data of
all 50 crore beneficiaries to be stored on a Central Server for BIG DATA analysis , in order to
“ Predict “ WHO might become
susceptible to WHICH ailment and WHEN
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Corona
Patient Case Histories : a Fragmented Database ………….. [ 30 March 2020 ]
Extract :
There
is urgent need to STANDARDIZE the following
:
[ A ]…… Patient Data Form
[ B ] ….. Laboratory
[ C ] ….. Authorities
[ D ] …. Quarantine
Ideally , all of the above-mentioned data must be filled in ONLINE ( from a desktop
or from a Mobile App to be launched by
Central Ministry of Health and Family Welfare – Dr Harsh Vardhanji )
by the laboratory concerned
All
data will flow into a SINGLE , CENTRAL
DATA-BASE of Health History of Indian Citizen
This database should be made accessible as follows :
Ø Specified “ Health-care Authorities “ in an anonymized /
aggregated manner
Ø Specified “ Doctors / Labs “ , with names of only
those patients who were treated by them ( including Family
Doctor )
A “ standardization / uniformity / protocol “ of the type described above will help in making
available to Healthcare Authorities,
COMPUTERISED DECISION MAKING SUPPORT
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CURRENT STATE OF ART , WORLD-WIDE
:
> Telehealth’s
future is bright. Here’s what it’ll look like in 2025 [ 20 May
2020 ]
Extract :
Ø CONNECTED MEDICAL DEVICES
A doctor’s inability to listen to my heart during a virtual visit might be solved if I have my own
digital stethoscope, an item that’s widely available now. The doctor might even
be able to watch me take my own blood pressure during the virtual visit to make sure I do it right, then read
the results I upload
.
These kinds of connected medical devices are already here.
The diabetes management company One Drop sells a kit and app for measuring blood sugar levels and reporting the data to a doctor or other caregiver.
AliveCor’s Kardia
device creates a
medical-grade EKG that can detect atrial fibrillation,
bradycardia, or tachycardia in 30 seconds, with some help from the company’s AI algorithms.
A quick search finds FDA-approved connected
otoscopes,
which help physicians look inside your ear, as well as numerous blood pressure
monitors,
wearable blood
glucose monitors, and many other connected health gadgets.
Telemedicine platforms often review these
devices and integrate with the ones they prefer.
Ø REMOTE HEALTHCARE KITS
Telemedicine appointments where patients at
home transmit
diagnostic data to a caregiver is just one scenario. Many schools,
workplaces, and remote clinics have someone with medical training on staff who
can conduct diagnostic
tests and
pass them on to a remote
doctor.
Ø APPS, APPS, APPS
There’s also a growing wave of digital health
apps that rely on
smartphone features to collect
diagnostic data.
The Australian company ResApp Health makes a
number of apps that use a smartphone to record and transmit the recording
of a cough.
Tel Aviv-based Healthy.io makes an app that uses the smartphone’s
camera to
measure aspects of a patient’s urine.
Researchers at the Centre for Eye Research
Australia (CERA)
developed a tablet app that uses computer vision to recognize early signs of Alzheimer’s in the eye of the user
Ø
BEYOND
THE “WEALTHY AND WELL”
But in the future, a digital
health integration with a pharmacy system might inform a doctor if a
patient has failed to fill a prescription.
Modern smartwatches have gradually added data-collecting sensors that
could be potentially useful to caregivers
“When those devices detect that something is going the wrong way, the
clinician shows up on your phone within a matter of a minute and says,
‘Hey, we
just detected that you have an arrhythmia, and this is what we’re going to do
about it,'” Tong says.
Personal health monitoring may have started with wrist wearables, but there is a growing list of options.
In the future,
we’ll very likely see things like hearing aids that also
listen to heart rhythms, finger rings that monitor skin temperature and other
vitals, and clothing with built-in
sensors for monitoring body temperature, heart rate,
and other metrics
A NEW APPROACH, WITH AI
As wearables generate more precise measurements, we’ll likely see more
startups that specialize in receiving, analyzing, and presenting the data to
caregivers via a dashboard.
Their software products might even integrate biometrics data with other patient information
from the electronic health record, then apply AI to the data set to look for patterns.
Insights from this analysis might trigger a proactive video call to a patient’s phone before
they realize something’s wrong.
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The
rise of telemedicine: How COVID-19 is fundamentally changing healthcare for all
of us [ 31 March 2020
]
Extract :
In
this moment, consumers are experiencing telemedicine and discovering the ease
by which they can receive quality care; providers are overcoming their
concerns; and payers are aligning reimbursement so that physicians can actually
get compensated for the work that they do.
Given
the acceleration of telemedicine in this moment, this shift will take hold and fundamentally transform healthcare for all of us
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Influence of Telemedicine In
the US and Its Impact In India [ 22 April
2020 ]
Extract
:
In the light of the novel coronavirus pandemic, MoHFW has
issued guidelines for telemedicine services/projects in collaboration with
Board of Governors (BoGs), Medical Council of India and the NITI Aayog
Another advantage is that telemedicine will allow people from
all over the country to access necessary healthcare without leaving their homes
or breaking quarantine conditions
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Dear Dr HarshVardhanji,
In
July 2019, your ministry unveiled an ambitious plan to introduce interoperable electronic health records ( EHR
) , based on consent which will enable all citizens to access their health
records within 5 clicks
The
plan is part of the National Digital
Health Blueprint unveiled by the
Health Ministry
The
key objectives include,
#
establishing and managing the core digital health data
and the infrastructure required for its seamless exchange
# creating a system of personal
health records based on international standards, which is
easily accessible to
citizens and service providers based on
citizen-consent
It also aims to use it for health data analytics and
medical research
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The need for this plan was seen by you ,
some 10 months back
Corona crisis has lent an URGENCY to
implement it
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com /
21 May 2020