Around the world, people are living longer and striving to lead independent, happy, and healthy lives - unfortunately the concurrent rise in chronic disease conditions such as diabetes, combined with ‘longevity’ has resulted in an exaltation of patients spending ‘quality time’ within the environs of their local emergency room and becoming acquainted with the personnel therein.
To assist our clientele in maintaining their ‘healthy lifestyle’, reducing hospital overhead costs and returning care to the community - Intel have gained FDA market clearance approval for their personal healthcare system.
The 8lb gadget functions as a personal health care system. The Health Guide includes a touch-screen PC and a web portal that connects patients with physicians. The computer can be used as a ‘medication reminder’, live video interface between doctor and patient, and is capable of assessing, collating and transferring details of a patients vital signs. Information gathered by the Health Guide is then encrypted and sent to the patient’s health care professional using Intel’s Health Care Management Suite, which is supposedly secure enough to handle sensitive patient records.
The Intel Health Guide PHS6000 is expected to be commercially available from health care providers either late 2008 or early 2009
- Patients remain at home
- Patients and clinicians work together ‘virtually’ to achieve the best outcomes
- Patients are viewed in their totality, including their health status, as well as their social network and their individual capabilities and preferences
Backed by nearly a decade of ethnographic and health research, Intel believes innovations in personal telehealth technology will help usher in an era of patient management marked by new ways of envisioning the delivery of care.
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