“But what if the Electronic Medical Record was more of a movie instead of a snapshot: a continuous flow of real time information collected directly from the source — your body — by arrays of remote, ambient or wearable sensors, with the data ported to an intelligent, networked, expert system geared to flagging critical indicators, thresholds, locations and whatever else, for that matter, that needs monitoring”
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog
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October 3, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I think this is a great idea. There is a new hospital near Grand Rapids, Michigan, that has 37-inch displays in patient rooms that might have this capability in the future. I do not know who is responsible for this system:
“Each room is private, with windows, and offers a foldout couch for overnight guests, individual temperature and lighting adjustments and a 37-inch TV screen that can show any of 30 recently released movies. The video component also provides Internet access and a portal to view a person’s electronically stored medical records, even results from tests taken just the day before.”
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709300716