I-Health is an advanced healthcare trend to building convenient, mobile products and services that help you manage your personal health, using self-monitoring products compatible with mobile apps, or connected wirelessly with your doctor even in another country or can take immediate action & alarms in case of emergency.
Clinicians Heal People. Informatics Heals Health Care.
I-Health is about what works. And what doesn’t. I-Health is about solutions created and refined in the real world that make health care better. I-Health concept can be used by any C-suite, decision makers, and strategic planners, clinicians charged with understanding the big picture, improving outcomes and lowering costs. Bottom-line analysts, managers and physician/nurse executives transforming the business and practice of healthcare delivery. I-Health is for financially accountable executives who need move the margins in ways that only operational informatics can drive. I-Health is ideal for CMIO/CNIOs seeking to deepen the information base feeding critical decision-making by their teams and clinicians. I-Health is an essential element in the Applied Clinical Informaticians tool box for those leaders who want to make system investments that produce measureable results. I-Health can be explained as:
| information | Share, discuss, and learn best practices for health care leaders who are transforming their organizations through infrastructure, design, and operational informatics |
| individual | Describe and leverage informatics to promote individualized care processes and models of health engagement |
| informatics | Accelerate the reorganization of clinical data flow so that it follows patients across organizational settings and provides real time information for researchers, care delivery teams, and consumers |
| intelligence | Understand how to leverage biomedical and health information, advanced analytics and insights to accelerate efficiency, effectiveness, and the creation of value in a learning health care system |
| innovation | Explore the leadership opportunities for using technologies and strategies to drive innovation in health care |
| improve: | Understand how to design or redesign clinical interventions to improve care and generate knowledge for a learning health system |
There are great products on the market that help people measure weight, blood pressure and other vital stats. The challenge with many of these products is that user data lives in the device only, and can’t be easily visualized, tracked or shared. I-Health devices when integration with mobile technology has captured the imagination of its users, who can now measure, track and share their data, and play a more active role in managing their health. Some of the i-Health equipments available with us are:
Wireless Blood Pressure Wrist Monitor
Wireless Blood Pressure Wrist Monitor attaches with a smaller cuff at the wrist, for easy on and off. It also uses motion sensor technology to ensure the most accurate read possible. Using our free I-Health mobile app, measure and track your systolic/diastolic numbers, heart rate, pulse wave and measurement time. Then share your results instantly. Measure and track your systolic/diastolic numbers, heart rate, pulse wave and measurement time. Create visually dynamic charts to track your progress. Compare results against your historical averages, as well as World Health Organization (WHO) classifications. Share results instantly with friends, family, or your doctor. Keep track of physical activities and daily diet as part of your overall health
Wireless Body Analysis Scale
Wireless Body Analysis Scale measure, track and share 9 different characteristics of your body composition on our free I-Health mobile app. You can use it online or off. And our scale supports up to 20 users, so go ahead, compare your muscle mass with the whole family. Measure weight, body fat, lean mass, muscle mass, bone mass, body water, daily calorie intake, body mass index, and visceral fat rating. Set goals and reminders, view trends, and organize records. Share your results instantly with friends, family or your doctor. Log calories and daily activities.
Wireless Activity And Sleep Tracker
The I-Health Wireless Activity and Sleep Tracker is a device that tracks your daily activity and sleep. It uses Bluetooth 4.0 with low energy technology and is sweat, rain and splash proof. Each Tracker comes with two color options for wristbands and waist clips. This Tracker, along with the free I-Health MyVitals app, can keep you motivated and help you stay on track to a more active and healthier lifestyle. Measure steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled, sleep hours and sleep efficiency. Set goals and silent alarms that vibrate, view trends, and organize records. Share your results instantly with friends and family. Keep track of physical activities and daily diet as part of your overall health
Wireless Pulse Oximeter
The Wireless Pulse Oximeter is a reliable way to spot-check blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate (BPM). This lightweight and portable device takes fast, noninvasive measurements at the fingertip. Track and view your SpO2 and BPM readings directly on the device’s display and in the I-Health SpO2 app during sports training or other recreational activities. Measure your blood oxygen saturation and pulse rate. View trends, and organize records. Share your results instantly with friends and family
Wireless Smart Gluco-Monitoring System
The Wireless Smart Gluco-Monitoring System lets you measure and record your glucose levels using a portable testing kit and your Bluetooth-enabled mobile device. The first system of its kind and great for traveling, it includes a sleek meter with an easy-to-read LED display. It’s fast, too, taking measurements and delivering accurate results in just five seconds. The free app saves time and eliminates errors by automatically handling tasks that are manual in some systems, like coding, counting test strips, and logging test results. Add the secure cloud service (it’s free, too), and you have a convenient “go-to” testing system—wherever you go.
Wireless Ambulatory ECG
I-Health also announced a first of its kind wearable, ambulatory ECG that monitors heart activity continuously without the need for cumbersome wires or connections. The electrodes and monitor are ergonomically designed into a single, lightweight unit that attaches directly to the users chest and can be worn under clothing. The data can be transferred directly to a user’s mobile device that automatically pushes data to the cloud, allowing for easy access by health care professionals. Ambulatory ECG’s are commonly used to test for abnormal heart rate or rhythm (arrhythmia) that is often sporadic and easier to identify via extended measurement periods. The new device uses Bluetooth 4.0 BLE to transfer data to an IOS device or can transfer data to a PC using an USB cable. The product uses a rechargeable battery and stores up to 72 hours of data.
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
Remote patient monitoring (RPM), also called homecare telehealth, is a type of ambulatory healthcare that allows a patient to use a mobile medical device to perform a routine test and send the test data to a healthcare professional in real-time.
RPM technology includes daily monitoring devices such as glucose meters for patients with diabetes and heart or blood pressure monitors for patients receiving cardiac care. Data can be sent to a physician’s office by using a special telehealth computer system, by using a special software application installed on the patient’s Internet-capable computer, smartphone or tablet PC.
The data the patient sends is stored in a relational database so the healthcare professional can view the data as a specific instance or as a trend. RPM is frequently used with the elderly and the chronically ill, two groups of people who have high levels of medical need. Remote monitoring techniques allow these patients and their physicians to closely monitor medical conditions and, if need be, intervene.
DECT Baby Monitor
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Remote Patient Monitoring – System
Remote patient monitoring has evolved with the advent of new age technologies and health monitoring systems at home. With increase in mobility, connectivity and portability of patient monitoring devices, medical OEMs and providers are looking at cost-effective and sophisticated monitoring solutions. Wipro enables delivery of customized patient monitoring systems and remote health care services. Wipro’s Connected Health solution covers heart failure and diabetes monitoring, elderly care, wellness management, fetal monitoring and emergency services. Our solutions for personalized care management offer an integrated home-installed system with wireless data transmission capabilities to the centralized database. This is supplemented with health-related guidance, advice and care based on personalized data that enables a greater degree of freedom without curbing one’s lifestyle. Wipro’s intellectual property in home health monitoring gateway, mobile health monitoring, remote patient management server and electronic medical records (EMR) gateway enable accelerated solution development.
- Medical device and sensor connectivity.
- Application development and maintenance for applications like (Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Patient Health Record (PHR);
- Infrastructure management including hosting, global command center and remote management.
- Quality assurance and regulatory services including product validation, certification & submission and managed health services for personal health management.
Challenges to i-Health in India:
- Scale Up, Scale Out, and Scale In: One of the biggest barriers to deployment of a decision support or electronic health record system is the ability to scale. The term “scale up” refers to a system’s ability to support a large user base—typically hundreds of thousands or millions. Most systems are evaluated within a narrower scope of users. “Scale out” refers to a system’s ability to work in multiple countries and regions as well as the ability to work across disease types. Many systems work only for one particular disease and are not easily regionalized—for example, for local languages, regulations, and processes. “Scale in” refers to the ability of a system to capture and benchmark against a single individual. Most systems assume a generic patient and fail to capture unique characteristics that can be effective in individualized treatment.
- Data Sharing Solution: Even beyond traditional legacy data silos barriers to sharing critical public health data still exist—including concerns about privacy and sovereignty. Data availability is also limited regionally. Significant public health value resides in each of these datasets, and efforts should be made to overcome the barriers to gathering data into shared, de-identified global databases. Such public datasets, while useful on their own, also add significant value to proprietary datasets, providing valuable generic context to proprietary information.
- The user Interface : A challenge with cellular technology is the highly constrained user interface and the difficulty of entering data using a relatively small screen and keypad.
- Gathering Healthcare to Where it is most critically required: Because of their prevalence in developing countries, cell phones are a natural choice for a delivery vehicle. Indeed, it is believed that, in many such areas, access to cell phones is better than access to clean water.
- Diagnosis Efficiency & Accuracy: Studies indicate that even highly trained physicians overestimate their diagnostic accuracy. In developing countries, the combined challenges of misdiagnoses and missing data not only reduce the quality of medical care for individuals but lead to missed outbreak recognition and flawed population health assessment and planning.
Roadmap to Future:
A system for the acquisition, analysis, and transmission of medical knowledge and data in developing countries, is being developed and deploy to perform. The system includes a centralized component based on PC technology that houses medical knowledge and data and has real-time diagnostic capabilities, complemented by a cell phone–based interface for medical workers in the field. Such a system will lead to improved medical care in India through improved diagnoses, the collection of more accurate and timely data across more individuals, and the improved dissemination of accurate and timely medical knowledge and information.
Imagine a world of connected personal health records can be used to improve medication; we can see that the potential impact is staggering. By knowing virtually every individual who exists, the diseases affecting that person, and where he or she is located; by improving data integrity; and by collecting the data in a central location, we can revolutionize medicine and perhaps even eradicate more diseases. This global system can monitor the effects of various humanitarian efforts and thereby justify and tailor efforts, medications, and resources to specific areas. It is our hope that a system that can offer high-quality diagnoses as well as collect and rapidly disseminate valid data will save millions of lives. Alerts and responses can become virtually instantaneous and can thus lead to the identification of drug resistance, outbreaks, and effective treatments in a fraction of the time it takes now.
