Pacemakers are an electrical pulse regulatory mechanism, that helps create well balanced heart beats in patients in need. Pacemaker monitoring in the past has been limited to Physician visits, and emergent visit to the hospitals. Proper pacemaker monitoring with real-time implications leaves new insight and advancement within the medical field; while delivering real-time possible life saving patient information to appropriate personnel. With this newer technology Physicians, nurses, and other approved medical staff have the option to monitor their patient’s heart functionality, and fix pacemaker electrical signals to fit patients need from a mobile device, without ever bringing the patient into the Physicians’ office. Cardiac remote patient monitoring uses smart phones, and specific designed (secured) e-mails to deliver information sent from the device implanted within the patient’s heart. This allows medical staff to receive pertinent up-to date- information on the condition of the patient’s pacemaker, and heart. This can help create profound patient care, early critical heart failure, or heart defibrillation detection; while adding to medical staff’s proficiency, and cutting costly emergency room visits with prevention detection ("Remote Monitoring Technology Improves Pacemaker Performance", 2012). Airstrips one of the leading technologies in mobile monitoring, applications accelerates, and completes the clinical mobility lifecycle. Airstrips mobile technology is used to monitor and bench mark analytics through mobile patient monitoring. Allowing doctors, and patients to collaborate on long term health goals, and allows medical staff to insure proper monitoring of the patients health, to help insure those goals are meant ("Ai... ... middle of paper ... ...vering possible health prevention may be a life saving venture. The incredible technology is evolving, and become more refined as each step is meant. What the complete future holds for patients medical monitoring is yet to be unveiled, but the benefits to patients and life saving information monitoring maybe one of the biggest steps in health care monitoring, and prevention. Works Cited AIRSTRIP. (2013). Retrieved from http://airstriptech.com/ Mearlan, L. (2013). iPad, iPhone get remote heart-monitoring app. Retrieved from http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215406/iPad_iPhone_get_remote_heart_monitoring_app Remote health monitoring pegged at 3 million users by 2016erizon For Healthcare. (2012). Remote health monitoring pegged at 3 million users by 2016. Retrieved from http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/remote-health-monitoring-pegged-3-million-users-2016
Heart, the key organ of the circulatory system, supplies blood to body parts by rhythmic contraction (systole) and relaxation (diastole) – the heartbeat. Heart rate is the number of beats per minute (BPM) is an important vital signs measurement for cardiovascular health and human’s wellbeing. There are many methods to measure heart rate (or pulse). One simple method is to manually count the pulse by placing finger on Radial pulse (Wrist) or the Carotid pulse (neck). The need for the ceaseless observation of the heart rate motivates for the invention of heart rate monitors. Another essential factor is the Oxygen saturation (So2 or SpO2), the oxygen concentration in hemoglobin. As the name says, we need oxygen to survive. To achieve this, the technique Pulse oximetry is employed. Pulse oximetry produces a graph, called Plethysmogram.
First of all we need to understand the type of technology this device represents. Is this a sustaining innovation? Or is this a completely new disruptive product? After fully understanding this aspect we can make better decisions regarding the future of the firm and its product. This device offers many benefits that current products do not. As explained earlier, this device is extremely portable, offering emergency rooms the flexibility and convenience they seek to provide patients with the best treatment possible. Likewise, this product will come in at a price point much lower than current echocardiographies, further separ...
What I wanted to talk about today is this life save device called a automated external defibrillator. It has become the number one way to resuscitate a person who has had a cardiac arrest unwitnessed by emergency medical services and who is still in persistent ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia. Many people have played a big role in creating this device to become more efficient, smaller and easier to use for the general public. Here are just to name a few that played a part in the creation for this device: Claude Beck, James Rand, Paul Zoll, and Frank Pantridge. The first use of a defibrillator on a patient was in 1947 on a 14 year old boy. Claude Beck was performing a open-chest surgery when the boy went into fibrillation. Beck manually massaged his heart for 45 minutes until the arrival of the defibrillator. The defibrillator he used during surgery was made by James Rand and had silver paddles the size of large teaspoons. In 1956, Paul Zoll performed the first successful external defibrillation with a more powerful defibrillator. A major breakthrough in emergency medicine occur in 1965. At the time a majority of coronary deaths occurred outside of the hospital setting since defibrillator required a main power source and were only available in hospitals it made them pretty much useless in saving lives outside of a hospital setting. Frank Pantridge often referred to as the Father of Emergency Medicine, made the first portable defibrillator in 1965. This device was power by a car battery and weighted approximately 70 kg (155 lbs). By 1968 he was able to create a defibrillator that was safer to use and only weighted 3 kg (6-7 lbs). It was argued that their was a possibility of misuse of the device if given to a unt...
Telehealth is the monitoring via remote exchange of physiological data between a patient at home and health care professionals at hospitals or clinics to assist with diagnosis and treatment. As our society ages and health care costs increase, government and private insurance payers are seeking technological interventions. Technological solutions may provide high quality healthcare services at a distance, utilize professional resources more effectively, and enable elderly and ill patients to remain in their own homes. Patients may experience decreased hospitalization and urgent care settings, and out of home care may not be required as the patient is monitored at home. However, no study has been able to prove telehealth benefits conclusively. This change in health care delivery presents new ethical concerns, and new relationship boundaries between health care professionals, patients, and family members. This paper will discuss telehealth benefits in specific patient populations, costs benefits of using telehealth, and concerns of using telehealth.
Telemetry nurses are RNs with advanced training who deal only with patients who have ongoing health conditions or experience sudden health services, such as those who have heart problems or those who recently had surgery. Telemetry nurses use various types of medical technology to monitor patients' vitals such as blood pressure, heart activity, breathing patterns and blood oxygen saturation. They record and interpret this data to assess their patient's recovery rates. They also share this information with physicians and other health care experts to determine treatment methods. Telemetry nurses must meticulously track all medications in order to avoid any negative drug interactions. Telemetry nurses are involved at the beginning of care when they assist doctors with procedures and diagnostics. They oversee patients until the end of care when they educate them how to avoid potential relapses or problems after they are released.
It is not hard to imagine why this kind of technology will be gradually integrated into the medical field over the next 20 years. Inventors have had the ability to create these apps for a few years now. In 2011, an article was posted describing an app called AirStrip ONE that allowed doctors to monitor patients from remote locations or view the results of electrocardiograms on patients being transported by ambulance before they arrive at the hospital. AirStrip ONE allows “medical teams in the emergency room and cardiac catheterization lab time to prepare, and it can also help paramedics with triage” (Garloch, n.p.). Apps with advancing technology exist in other countries as well, and may soon ...
This technology fits well with as industry looking for new care models to help alleviate the financial and physical burden created by chronic diseases. Mobile health technology is allowing for a shift of care from the acute-care, hospital setting to rehabilitation centers, patient residences, and skilled nursing facilities. This becomes crucial as CMS expanded its Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program to include five conditions: chronic lung problems, heart failure, pneumonia, heart attack, and elective hip and knee replacements (Rau, 2014a). Hospitals can be penalized up to three percent of Medicare payments due to hospital readmissions that occur within thirty days of discharge. According to Rau (2014b), 18 percent of Medicare patients in 2013 were readmitted within a 30 day period costing Medicare roughly $26 billion, $17 billion of which comes from avoidable readmissions. The financial strain associated with chronic illness has catalyzed a movement toward using technology in a meaningful manner to improve health quality. Meaningful use is forcing entities to use certified electronic health records (EHR) in order to improve care coordination and quality. mHealth serves an extension of the electronic record enabling remote data capture that can be monitored in order to improve health outcomes and prevent
In my experience, technology is used very often and safety precautions are present if something goes wrong. For example, vital signs machine are used all the time, but if a nurse or clinical partner sees an abnormal value, they take vitals manually. Technology can also support safety. Bed alarms are safety measures that detect a patient getting out of bed and helps prevent the patient from fall injuries. In the next 10 years, technology would continue to provide assistance to healthcare professionals in managing patient care, but the emotional aspect of providing care to patients will still be the
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Medical technology is expanding rapidly in hospitals all over the world. Telemedicine is one of the medical technologies that is used today in hospitals to help physicians and healthcare providers communicate with patients via phone, email and webcams, allowing them to provide quality care regardless the distance1. The use of telemedicine is bringing new approaches to treat, diagnose and prevent permanent damage to patients that need medical attention rapidly.
The pacemaker system is divided into 2 parts and it is placed underneath the skin below the clavicle. The first part is the pacemaker itself, which is like a computer with batteries. Second part is the electrodes that with the help of the mobile x-ray pictures will be placed correctly. The procedure only takes a little less than a hour. There are different sorts of pacemakers and to make sure it is used most effective there are pacemakers which is helping only where it is needed. The reason for that is so that the heart’s natural way of working is disturbed as little as possible. (Hjärt-Lungfonden, 2008(3) The picture below show the stimulation of the a heart muscle from an electrode that is attached to the part of the pacemaker which contain the batteries.
ED volumes are not the prime element of overcrowding, ED overcrowding as a condition in which the identified need for emergency services exceeds available resources in the ED, and this situation happens in hospital EDs when there are more patients coming to the Ed than staffed, treatment beds and waiting times outstrip a reasonable period (Barish, Mcgauly & Arnold, 2012). Mobile health (mHealth) is described as the use of mobile and wireless technologies for many health purposes (Ventola, 2014). Researchers and representatives consider mHealth has the ability to enhance health care delivery and outcomes, offer a platform for customized medicine, and support patients in disease management (Ventola,
When you hear the term wireless you might think of a laptop. Wireless is the technology of sending information over the air. Many devices now have this technology, from laptops to PDA’s (Personal Digital Assistants) and smartphones. Smartphones even have PDA’s in them in which you can read, send, and receive e-mail and pictures. When we discuss wireless, think of the transmission of data over a secured network. PDA’s will be the staple of technology that will be used in the future. Let’s face it, most users of PDA’s in healthcare settings today are physicians checking their e-mail or nurses using them for reference. We have really not seen too much implementation with real-time software to use in the hospital setting. Hassett (2002, p. 32) stated, “Health care information is going mobile, and personal digital assistants are in the vanguard.” Although Hassett made this statement in 2002, we have seen little implementation since then. She says that healthcare facilities can link your PDA to their network and you can have access to information such as diagnosis and lab alerts. This statement is true, but most healthcare instructions have not broken the budget to provide...
Telemedicine is an emerging technology in contemporary healthcare. Healthcare providers acknowledge the disadvantages of a strenuous distance between patients and providers. Researches and studies, as evidenced by the scientific literature, are conducted to find a way to enhance the delivery of care. As Field (1996) stated, "the intersection of many of these efforts is telemedicine, a combination of mainstream and innovative information technologies".
Mobile health, is also called mHealth, is a popular term in healthcare industry. As technology becoming more prevalent in healthcare delivery, mHealth is also receiving more attention in the health service around the world. The different level of mHelath technology are varies in different parts of the world base on the resources in placed. Yu et al. (2016) predict Europe and Asia will have the largest markets followed by North America, Latin America, and Africa. With many developed countries in the process adapting to the mobile health trends many low and middle income countries utilization are still in early stage of development.