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Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
FEVERWATCH ® is one of the first baby steps toward creating that new environment a
real possibility. The best of the healthcare delivery is practiced at intensive care unit (ICU).
Significant difference between ICU, the place of best care, and outside being the ability to
continuously monitor vital parameters of the patient and intervene instantly.
Movie = 1,000 Pictures and each picture is 1,000 words = A movie is million words
(1,000 × 1,000)
Continuous monitoring = multiple instant direct measurement is 1,000 times better than
relying on Patient’s narration = Continuous monitoring is million times better than patient’s
expression about symptoms.
12.2.7 Depending upon the Anxiety and Communication
Capability There Can Be Misguidance to Physician
Each individual is a complicated unique system and relying purely upon the patient’s
expressions can be misleading and can complicate things even more. There should be a
matured system for physicians to rely upon to take decisions. Today’s patients demand
more than what can be delivered.
12.2.8 How About Making the Continuous Monitoring of Vital Parameters a
Possibility at Pocket Level? (Fayyoumi et al. 2014; Mare and Kotz 2010;
Zhu et al. 2015)
At the outset it looks like it is practically impossible for physician to go through all details
to make a decision, even if we are going to invent new kind of sensors and gadgets to generate stream of measured data. This overwhelming amount of data is going to throw the
entire current system out of gear; no one has time to review such a huge data for making
decisions.
12.2.9 The 3I (Figure 12.4)
Consider we have an algorithm and if it can help physician in making Instant/Informed/
Intelligent decisions. The 3I. Physicians need to focus on handling the patient and not going
through the piles of report of the past and current issues. As the technology advances
more and more fragmented information about the patients keeps pouring in. The chances
of losing piles of information are higher. Being the case he/she needs a new tool; we call
it as 3I. Physician gets more time to build relationship with patient and such a decisionmaking tool is the need of the hour. It is like autopilot feature assisting an expert pilot.
This helps the physician to move out of current practice of treating the patient through
perceived symptoms to more scientific, evidence-based decisions. This for sure will lead
to a new kind of sigh and relief to the patient as well as the physician and also build a path
for the trust between them.
Figure 12.5 illustrates that there is no physical entry of data; all data are directly computable
with high security and integrity.
Patient, practitioner, and payer all are in single platform. Using this readily available
technological platform, we defy the current issues around the requirement of huge investment toward creating more hospital beds and more physicians. Recently Sweden’s health
minister announced that their country would eventually stop building any additional hospital beds.
Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
FEVERWATCH ® is one of the first baby steps toward creating that new environment a
real possibility. The best of the healthcare delivery is practiced at intensive care unit (ICU).
Significant difference between ICU, the place of best care, and outside being the ability to
continuously monitor vital parameters of the patient and intervene instantly.
Movie = 1,000 Pictures and each picture is 1,000 words = A movie is million words
(1,000 × 1,000)
Continuous monitoring = multiple instant direct measurement is 1,000 times better than
relying on Patient’s narration = Continuous monitoring is million times better than patient’s
expression about symptoms.
12.2.7 Depending upon the Anxiety and Communication
Capability There Can Be Misguidance to Physician
Each individual is a complicated unique system and relying purely upon the patient’s
expressions can be misleading and can complicate things even more. There should be a
matured system for physicians to rely upon to take decisions. Today’s patients demand
more than what can be delivered.
12.2.8 How About Making the Continuous Monitoring of Vital Parameters a
Possibility at Pocket Level? (Fayyoumi et al. 2014; Mare and Kotz 2010;
Zhu et al. 2015)
At the outset it looks like it is practically impossible for physician to go through all details
to make a decision, even if we are going to invent new kind of sensors and gadgets to generate stream of measured data. This overwhelming amount of data is going to throw the
entire current system out of gear; no one has time to review such a huge data for making
decisions.
12.2.9 The 3I (Figure 12.4)
Consider we have an algorithm and if it can help physician in making Instant/Informed/
Intelligent decisions. The 3I. Physicians need to focus on handling the patient and not going
through the piles of report of the past and current issues. As the technology advances
more and more fragmented information about the patients keeps pouring in. The chances
of losing piles of information are higher. Being the case he/she needs a new tool; we call
it as 3I. Physician gets more time to build relationship with patient and such a decisionmaking tool is the need of the hour. It is like autopilot feature assisting an expert pilot.
This helps the physician to move out of current practice of treating the patient through
perceived symptoms to more scientific, evidence-based decisions. This for sure will lead
to a new kind of sigh and relief to the patient as well as the physician and also build a path
for the trust between them.
Figure 12.5 illustrates that there is no physical entry of data; all data are directly computable
with high security and integrity.
Patient, practitioner, and payer all are in single platform. Using this readily available
technological platform, we defy the current issues around the requirement of huge investment toward creating more hospital beds and more physicians. Recently Sweden’s health
minister announced that their country would eventually stop building any additional hospital beds.