Next generation patient care powered through Telehealth
Why mHealth?
Over the years, there has been increased pressure on the healthcare systems all over the world. Overpopulation and lifestyle changes in urban areas are resulting in overcrowding in hospitals. One of the main problem is access to quality healthcare at the right time. In addition to above there is shortage of health care workers through out the world. In coming years focus would shift from late stage treatments to prevention and early detection.
Medical devices connectivity would be one of key enabler for preventive health management. The challenge is that there is no specific standards adopted for medical devices connectivity with external world and is still predominantly follows propritory protocols. Lately there there is a trend in adoption of IEEE/Continua standard.
'mHealth' is well positioned to address some of the challenges as mobile devices continues to reach large set of population, ease of use and available communication infrastructure as these could enable health care delivery to happen at reduced cost. mHealth can easily be adopted for health & wellness, chronic disease management and improve quality of life of patients.
Wipro mHealth Solutions
Wipro 'mHealth' solutions provide the technology framework addressing medical device connectivity challenges for remote health care delivery in a preventive approach there by reducing the healthcare cost and improvisation of the quality of life significantly.
Proof Of Concept Applications
1. Remote ECG Monitoring
An application to demonstrate capability of ECG monitoring of a patient remotely where 12 lead ECG data is wirelessly transferred over Bluetooth to a mobile phone acting as a gateway and transferring the ECG data from mobile phone wirelessly over Wi-Fi to a remote system.
2. Personal Health management solution
Applications to demonstrate capability for health and wellness management using mobile phone and seamless connectivity to Google Health or MS Heath vault or Proprietary Personal Health Record (PHR) system.
- Web based application
- Vital data upload using HV connection center or manual entry
- Basic health tips based on patients BMI, Blood pressure, Blood glucose values
- Thick Client application
- Manual vital entry, dashboard, appointment management
- Health tools for Weight Management, Blood pressure and Blood glucose.
Jyotirmay
Datta, Global Head Medical Devices, Wipro Technologies, talks about the key
trends in the life sciences and the medical devices industry impacting the
CFO organisations - elaborating on their impact on the healthcare ecosystem
and, the opportunities for technology, to address some of the challenges
that are an outcome of the change.
