I-Corps: Mobile HealthLink Wearable Remote Health Monitoring System

远程健康监测是一个快速增长的领域，有可能改善护理，减少家庭护理或社区护理环境中的住院和门诊。为了降低医疗服务提供者的成本，同时实现护理人员/患者的实时交互，所提出的技术（移动的HealthLink）使用经济实惠的智能手表提供应用程序和在线服务。健康监测应用程序和服务为医疗保健提供者提供了一种通过定性和定量数据收集方法远程评估和跟踪客户健康的手段。智能手表的健康应用程序是为65岁以上人口的不断增长而设计的，其中80%的人患有至少一种慢性疾病，需要持续护理。移动的HealthLink提供了一个在线管理门户，使老年人全方位护理计划（PACE）组织、家庭护理机构和主要护理人员能够更好地为客户服务。 拟议的项目将产生一个产品，提供负担得起的，用户友好的，和定制目前无法通过市场上的其他系统。该项目的目标是加强医疗保健提供者和他们所服务的人之间的沟通，从而提高医疗保健的质量。最初的目标人群是65岁以上的人，他们住在自己的家中，并接受PACE组织的医疗保健。为此，移动的HealthLink的一个基本组成部分是能够通过远程收集、存储、分析和响应定性和定量的健康状况信息来实施预防性医疗保健，特别是在农村人口中。由于患者反馈形式的定性数据对于医疗保健提供者提供优质护理的努力至关重要，因此移动的HealthLink结合了通过互联网门户创建并向患者的智能手表或其他电子设备发送定性健康查询的能力。通过此功能，医疗保健提供者可以根据定性和定量健康数据调整患者的健康方案。移动的HealthLink的第二个基本组成部分是其可扩展性。移动的HealthLink平台可用于跟踪一个组织的数千名订户或单个家庭成员的健康状况。这些设计组件以及移动的HealthLink与现有消费者智能手表、智能手机和平板电脑的兼容性，将使该产品面向更大的人群，并增强改善医疗保健的潜力。

Remote health monitoring is a rapidly growing field with potential for improved care and reduced hospitalizations and outpatient visits for people in home-care or community-care environments. To reduce the cost to health providers while enabling real-time caregiver/patient interaction, the proposed technology (Mobile HealthLink) provides an application and online service using an affordable smartwatch. The health monitoring application and service provide a means for healthcare providers to assess and track the health of clients remotely through qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The smartwatch health application was conceived for the growing population of people over the age of 65, of whom 80% suffer from at least one chronic illness and require constant care. Mobile HealthLink provides an online management portal to allow Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) organizations, home-care facilities, and primary caregivers to better serve their clients. The proposed project will generate a product that provides affordability, user-friendliness, and customization currently unavailable by other systems on the market. The goal of this project is to enhance communication between healthcare providers and the people they serve so improved quality of healthcare can be provided. The initial target population is people over the age of 65 years who live in their homes and receive healthcare from PACE organizations. To this end, one fundamental component of Mobile HealthLink is the ability to practice preventative healthcare, especially in rural populations, by remotely collecting, storing, analyzing, and responding to qualitative and quantitative health status information. Because qualitative data in the form of patient feedback is vital to healthcare providers' efforts to provide quality care, Mobile HealthLink incorporates the ability to create and send qualitative health queries to the patient's smartwatch, or other electronic device, by way of an internet portal. With this feature, healthcare providers can adjust the patient's health regimen based on both qualitative and quantitative health data. A second fundamental component of Mobile HealthLink is its scalability. The Mobile HealthLink platform can be used to follow the health status of thousands of an organization's subscribers or that of an individual family member. These design components and Mobile HealthLink's compatibility with existing consumer smartwatches, smart phones and tablets will make the product accessible to a larger population and enhance the potential to improve healthcare.