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12.5.1 Problems Faced with Wearable Devices in Health Care
At present, FEVERWATCH ® , which is available in the market, measures only temperature.
In an inpatient setting this may not be sufficient. The same sensor should be able to transmit blood pressure and respiratory rate, so that the paramedical worker can make intelligent decisions and help the physicians.
There are other issues to be supervised.
• Legal requirements: As this is a new field, legal requirements is not fully known
to use in a hospital setting. However, pilot studies are going on in tertiary care
centers in Chennai.
• Cost: Like all gadgets the initial cost will be high and it will come down only when
the volume increases.
12.6 Best Practices for Usage of EHRs
We must remember the following points while moving toward EHR usage
1. Use open standards for architectural design and implementation to develop an
EHR system. When developed using building blocks, it can be easily replaced
with other plug-ins.
2. Develop user-friendly mobile and tablet apps to improve patient usage and interaction with the system.
3. Provide real-time and static-messaging facilities to make the patient constantly in
touch with the physicians.
4. Provide reminders and notifications to parents on trigger of some health condition, which deserves attention, like asthma.
5. Life log facility to enable parent to store observations by parents and subsequent
review by parents.
6. Care net feature which enables sharing data with near and dear ones.
12.7 Conclusions and Future Works
Despite the positive effects from using EHRs in medical practices, the adoption rate of
such systems is still low, and they meet resistance from physicians. EHR usage requires
the presence of trained users, system facilities, support from others, and numerous
organizational and environment facilitators. In addition, difficulty of using EHRs and
the non-use of specific functions is due to the presence of above-mentioned barriers. For
the EHR systems to have a positive impact on patient safety, clinicians must be able to
use these systems effectively with the provided system features. It has been shown that
implementers can insulate the project from concerns by establishing strong leadership,
using project management techniques, establishing standards and training their staff
Non-Physician Primary Healthcare Workers
12.5.1 Problems Faced with Wearable Devices in Health Care
At present, FEVERWATCH ® , which is available in the market, measures only temperature.
In an inpatient setting this may not be sufficient. The same sensor should be able to transmit blood pressure and respiratory rate, so that the paramedical worker can make intelligent decisions and help the physicians.
There are other issues to be supervised.
• Legal requirements: As this is a new field, legal requirements is not fully known
to use in a hospital setting. However, pilot studies are going on in tertiary care
centers in Chennai.
• Cost: Like all gadgets the initial cost will be high and it will come down only when
the volume increases.
12.6 Best Practices for Usage of EHRs
We must remember the following points while moving toward EHR usage
1. Use open standards for architectural design and implementation to develop an
EHR system. When developed using building blocks, it can be easily replaced
with other plug-ins.
2. Develop user-friendly mobile and tablet apps to improve patient usage and interaction with the system.
3. Provide real-time and static-messaging facilities to make the patient constantly in
touch with the physicians.
4. Provide reminders and notifications to parents on trigger of some health condition, which deserves attention, like asthma.
5. Life log facility to enable parent to store observations by parents and subsequent
review by parents.
6. Care net feature which enables sharing data with near and dear ones.
12.7 Conclusions and Future Works
Despite the positive effects from using EHRs in medical practices, the adoption rate of
such systems is still low, and they meet resistance from physicians. EHR usage requires
the presence of trained users, system facilities, support from others, and numerous
organizational and environment facilitators. In addition, difficulty of using EHRs and
the non-use of specific functions is due to the presence of above-mentioned barriers. For
the EHR systems to have a positive impact on patient safety, clinicians must be able to
use these systems effectively with the provided system features. It has been shown that
implementers can insulate the project from concerns by establishing strong leadership,
using project management techniques, establishing standards and training their staff