- Atelion Health — support patients and get out of their way
- patients want to feel they’re being supported (not like travel booking, where people just want you to get out of the way)
- MGH Ambulatory Practice of the Future: often begin with the social stressors in their live, not their physical symptoms
- MGH: patients want a culture of partnership. Patients quickly realize if there’s team of not.
- Atelion: in health care, technology is a tool that people use to achieve what they want
- MGH: patients are resources, taking burden off their hands.
New Patient Engagement Models
More Demos of Connected Health Devices
- Connected Wellness
- patient controls record
- each patient has “personal circle of care” — providers, relatives, etc.
- plain-English plans from templates
- links to videos, etc.
- can track vital signs, subjective feelings, etc.
- Reflexion Health
- platform to reach patient in home. TV perhaps most used device in home? Why don’t we use it for health?
- Use Kinect
- TV-based PT
- 40-50 exercises in system now
Demos of Connected Health Devices
more cool devices!
- Authenidate:
- telehealth platform
- for smartphone
- for a variety of conditionautomatically takes vital signs
- on-screen educational videoeasily spot trending conditions
- Vtrim: obesity treatment
- 12-20 on line classes
- high-touch program
- goals-setting
- food & exercise journals — daily feedback from dieticians
- online meetings are text-based
- more than 3000 have taken it
- Vocera Care Experience
- CDC says 90% can’t remember the care instructions after an encounter
- they record discharge instructions
- patient can listen, watch video, have link to hospital website
- called “Good to Go”
- ClotFree
- system to make Coumadin twice as effective
- dialogue with clinician
- patients in range 81% of time
- Omada health
- aimed at reducing pre-diabetes
- CDC rolling out a prevention program
- They wanted to do a digital solution
- digital scale, online education, then a maintenance program. Group based.
- weekly packages
- Affinity Networks
- IntelliCare
WOW! Frank Moss, Atelion Health
Great Frank Moss, former director of the Media Lab! Says health care system has always undervalued role of patient in health care. Tells stories of 4 Media Lab alums who have created great new innovations:
- Anmol Madan, Ginger.io — “big data, better health” — can determine if someone will be sick based on analysis of their communication. People trying to care for their own diabetes increase their communications by 30% — applying to mental health as well!
- Ian Eslick — thought he could do better job managing his psoriasis. “Personal Experiments.org” — ran clinical trials for a variety of conditions. Mother of a child with CF used system to better understand condition
- Vitor Pamplona — “EyeNetra” Developed $2 clipon for a smart phone that allows a person to do their own eye exam.
- John Moore, “Collaborhythm” — empowers patients to become partners in their health care. Health coach works with patients to deal with their chronic conditions.
“Given great tools and social support, ordinary people will constantly exceed our expectationnsof their ability to play an active role in their health care”
Wendy Everett, NEHI: Connect the Health,Disconnect the Waste
Wendy Everett,the president of NEHI:
- rhapsodized about “e-patient Dave” and his experience
- we aren’t focusing on getting doctors and nurses to engage in revolutionary way
- talked about her husband’s recent medical experience — resulting in his death..
- she saw exceptional waste throughout process — including meals when he couldn’t eat
- incredibly moving!
- she wants best in connected health to become commonplace nationwide.
President of EPIC on future of EMRs
Carl Dvorak, ceo of EPIC, talked about amazing range of ways they’re using apps to integrate patients into EMRs:
- lots of emphasis on mobile devices
- messaging & e-visits
- mobile check in
- patient-reported outcomes
Innovations in Virtual Care: Engaging Consumers in their Health
Presentations @ Center for Connected Health Symposium:
- Michael McGarry, Ascension Health
- directs their Innovations Accelerator Team.
- how do we engage patients during 99% of time when they’re not getting care?
- Eric Rock, CEO, Vivify Health
- emphasis on connection and simplifiecation
- Dr. Dmitri Talantov
- he’s with Janssen Healthcare Innovation @ J & J
- integrated care systems,
- focus on orthopedic, cardio-vascular rehab
- need strong incentives for providers to engage under new delivery systems
- he’s with Janssen Healthcare Innovation @ J & J
- how do you engage consumers?
- barriers: need is for high-risk patient who doesn’t understand the tech
- new incentives in several states for daily reporting
- may have population that doesn’t want to engage — want to sit on couch!
- “restaurants probably have more impact on their condition than anything we can do”
- “insane opportunity in keeping people healthy!”
- how do you sell virtual care to providers?
- “pay them!”
- simplicity for them
- can’t expect them to interrupt their routines for something new.
- patients own their data
Dr. Leslie Saxon — Digital Health
Presentation @ the Center for Connected Health Symposium:
- “patients want to engage” — willing to share data
- using body-worn sensors, to let student athletes determine when they’re in high-performance zone either in school or on field.
- working with same sensors to study military resilience, which members of your team are “in the zone”
- “Latitude Heart Coach” — trying to empower patients to engage with the data. Make it sticky. Device is a life coach.
- using YouTube celebrities to help diabetics have constant carb levels.
- work with lot of mobile solutions
- also using Instagram — attach heart rate to photos
- want to collect everyone’s heart rate in entire world!
Qualcomm Life
Qualcomm presented their Healthy Circles platform at the Connected Health Symposium.
- connects all of providers after hospital discharge
- before discharge, creates an account for the patient, which is used afterwards to coordinate care
- very simple from patient standpoint: just plug in hub
- works with variety of radios, even proprietary ones
Live Blogging from Connected Health Symposium
- Tech4Life “Maternal Wristband”
- remote monitoring of blood glucose, hemoglobin & blood pressure of pregnant women in developing world
- like wristwatch
- can foresee other applications
I was impressed with all of these devices, but especially with the congestive heart failure ones: economical ways to reduce hospitalization for this condition!
