A Report on the Use of Smartphones as a Support for Recently Discharged Patients with Chronic Illness
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Imagine that your work on the Healthcare Professional/Information Technology Council is continuing. Now, the council is exploring the use of smartphones as a support for recently discharged patients with chronic illnesses. You are asked to investigate the potential of such a system and to present your findings to the council.
Prepare a report that demonstrates your findings and concludes with a recommendation. Don’t forget to consider the concepts of work flow and resistance that were covered in Week 5.
A report on the use of smartphones as a support for recently discharged patients with chronic illness
Prepared by: Purushottam Risal
Healthcare Information Technology Council
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A Recent study among 50 patients using medical apps to monitor the blood glucose and blood pressure was conducted and the results were all directed toward the use of smartphone increased the patient care.
The smartphone possesses physical activity-tracking apps use a smartphone's accelerometer and its GPS tracking features to collect data automatically. Similarly, a smartphone's Bluetooth feature can gather data from nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices such as scales and glucometers. The phone's camera can collect images for analysis or scan barcodes at supermarkets to provide automatic entry of nutrition values for daily diet entries.
The apps interfaced wirelessly with medical devices—including a blood-pressure monitor and a blood-sugar monitor—and offered suggestions based on the readings. The app highlighted trends in blood-pressure readings and detected when people forget to take their measurements, reminding them with an automated warning notification.
It is found that people using the programs lowered their blood pressure and were more vigilant about monitoring and testing their blood sugar. The app users had a drop in systolic blood pressure of 10 millimeters of mercury, on average, which would reduce the risk of cardiac events by about 25 percent.
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