The Elusiveness of Smart Healthcare
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TWELVE YEARS AGO I noticed something remarkable on a maternity hospital administrator’s desk. It was a paper with handwritten names, which she highlighted in yellow as each parent submitted a form. This caught my attention because in front of her was a PC connected to a feature-rich, widely used enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Fast forward to 2017. I again find myself in a hospital room, where I see a nurse carting a slick-looking portable diagnostic station. She uses it to measure a patient’s blood pressure, temperature, and blood oxygen saturation. The station, featuring a touchscreen on the front and an Ethernet port on the back, obviously has more communications bandwidth, CPU power, and storage than NASA’s entire Apollo moon-landing program. Yet, to my amazement, the nurse scribbles the numbers on a paper scrap for later filing. Smart healthcare goes beyond the paradigms of electronic health and mobile health, which I witnessed through the (problematic) use of a specialized ERP system and a portable diagnostic station. It utilizes rich contextual data obtained from mobile devices and sensor-rich networked environments to deliver personalized context-aware healthcare. Its promises are magnificent. Yet, widespread deployment might prove difficult owing to large disparities between technology developments and practice. Here’s my view on issues we should plan for.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Software
دوره 34 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017