Connected health: in the right place at the right time

Omboni, Stefano

doi:10.20517/ch.2021.01

Cited by 6 publications

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“…As opposed to teleconsultations and teletherapy, telemonitoring solutions for chronically ill patients have not seen an increase in uptake in Germany to date. The opportunities for improved patient care provided by telemonitoring have yet to be recognized [92] . While there is excellent evidence for the efficacy of telemonitoring for some chronic illnesses, such as high BP [93] , Germany currently lacks (particularly monetary) incentive structures to join up existing initiatives and establish new ones.…”

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The worldwide impact of telemedicine during COVID-19: current evidence and recommendations for the future

Omboni¹,

Padwal²,

Alessa³

et al. 2022

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has emerged worldwide as an indispensable resource to improve the surveillance of patients, curb the spread of disease, facilitate timely identification and management of ill people, but, most importantly, guarantee the continuity of care of frail patients with multiple chronic diseases. Although during COVID-19 telemedicine has thrived, and its adoption has moved forward in many countries, important gaps still remain. Major issues to be addressed to enable large scale implementation of telemedicine include: (1) establishing adequate policies to legislate telemedicine, license healthcare operators, protect patients’ privacy, and implement reimbursement plans; (2) creating and disseminating practical guidelines for the routine clinical use of telemedicine in different contexts; (3) increasing in the level of integration of telemedicine with traditional healthcare services; (4) improving healthcare professionals’ and patients’ awareness of and willingness to use telemedicine; and (5) overcoming inequalities among countries and population subgroups due to technological, infrastructural, and economic barriers. If all these requirements are met in the near future, remote management of patients will become an indispensable resource for the healthcare systems worldwide and will ultimately improve the management of patients and the quality of care.

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Section: Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%

The worldwide impact of telemedicine during COVID-19: current evidence and recommendations for the future

Omboni¹,

Padwal²,

Alessa³

et al. 2022

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“…Symptoms among patients with COVID-19 include fatigue, cough, muscle and headaches, decrease in taste and smell, difficulty breathing, gastrointestinal symptoms, fever, and confusion with agitation in elderly patients. Whereas cough, difficulties with breathing, and fatigue appear to be the leading symptoms of COVID-19, an elevated temperature (> 100 °F or > 37.5 °C) is not as common as frequently believed [3] .…”

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“…Furthermore, most of the patients who tested (or are suspected to be) positive for COVID-19 are in self-isolation at home. In view of the shortage of healthcare professionals and hospital beds around the world, new approaches including remote patient monitoring are needed [3][4][5][6][7] .…”

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confidence: 99%

Detection of health deterioration in a COVID-19 patient at home: the potential of ambient sensor systems

Saner,

Schütz,

Buluschek

et al. 2022

Conn Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic created increased interest in monitoring patients at home to allow timely recognition of health deteriorations. Hospital care is particularly demanding in these patients because of the necessity for isolation to avoid further spread of the disease. Therefore, home care is a preferred treatment setting for these patients. This is, to our knowledge, the first report indicating the potential of an affordable, contactless, and unobtrusive ambient sensor system for the detection of signs of health deterioration in a patient with COVID-19 by a caregiver from a distance. Prospective data acquisition and correlation of the data with clinical events were obtained from an 81-year-old senior with COVID-19 before and, in particular, over a period of 10 days prior to hospitalization. Clinical signs included weakness, increased respiration rate, sleep disturbances, and confusion. The visualization of a combination of this information on a dedicated dashboard allowed the caregiver to recognize a serious health deterioration that required a lifesaving hospitalization. The potential of such ambient sensor systems to detect signs of serious health deterioration in patients with COVID-19 opens new opportunities for use in asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic patients who live alone and are sent back to their homes for isolation in quarantine after diagnosis.

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“…Many machines and devices can offer efficient healthcare assistances and solutions through applications as well as using mobile devices to deliver healthcare services anytime and anywhere [4]. Much of the current literatures on IoT pay particular attention to the term Internet of Medical ings (IoMT) which is one of the most promising areas in the healthcare industry as it increases efficiency and quality of real-time diagnosis [8,9]. e IoMT consists of three main components: the hardware works as a firmware, middleware, and cloud platform works as software [10].…”

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A Proposed Application for Controlling Overweight and Obesity within the Framework of the Internet of Things

Alturki

Alharbi

AlQahtani

et al. 2021

Mobile Information Systems

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Currently, overweight and obesity are two problems for global health that affect people’s quality of life. The Internet of Things (IoT) has raised the possibility of digital interaction taken to another level. This paper proposes design requirements to develop a mobile application that contributes to the control of overweight or obesity under the IoT approach, focusing on some approaches that currently exist in home-oriented health with the help of existing mobile applications. The idea of this concept is the presence of the environment of various interconnected things or objects with sensors, networking, and processing technologies integrating and working together to provide an environment in which smart services are taken to the end users. The IoT allows monitoring people in real time and analyzing information provided by mobile applications and smart devices (wearables) they have, through techniques of artificial intelligence that allow the identification of variables criticism and the generation of medical recommendations. The medical assistance model will change from the existing hospital-centric model that we commonly know to a totally home-centred health one, in which there will be less work intensity and operational cost. The home health service allows the use of IoT technology, very often called Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT).

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Connected health: in the right place at the right time

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

The worldwide impact of telemedicine during COVID-19: current evidence and recommendations for the future

The worldwide impact of telemedicine during COVID-19: current evidence and recommendations for the future

Detection of health deterioration in a COVID-19 patient at home: the potential of ambient sensor systems

A Proposed Application for Controlling Overweight and Obesity within the Framework of the Internet of Things

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