Component 6; Unit 6: Patient Monitoring Systems
Description:
Definition of patient monitoring systems, describes the purpose, attributes, and functions of patient monitoring systems, discusses the primary applications and how automation can improve quality of care, and analyzes how the integration of data from many sources assists in medical decision making. Discusses how telehealth communication technologies support clinical care, explains the effectiveness and economic benefit of telehealth, and examines the role smart technology in the home and remote links to health information systems play in enhancing the quality of patient care.
Objectives:
- Describe the purpose, attributes, and functions of patient monitoring systems
- Discuss ways in which automation can improve the quality of patient care
- Analyze how the integration of data from many sources assists in making clinical decisions
- Discuss how telehealth communication technologies support clinical care
- Discuss the effectiveness and economic benefit of telehealth
- Examine how smart technology in the home and remote links to health information systems can enhance the quality of patient care
Component 6; Unit 6; Lecture 6a comp6_unit6a_lecture_slides
Introduction to Patient Monitoring Systems: 1) Definition, purpose, attributes and functions of patient monitoring systems; 2) Primary applications and automation; 3) Integration of data from multiple sources in decision-making
Component 6; Unit 6; Lecture 6b comp6_unit6b_lecture_slides
Telehealth and other Remote Patient Monitoring Technology: 1) Economic benefit of telehealth; 2 ) Smart technology in the home; 3) Enhancing patient care through remote links
Suggested Readings
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Center for Technology and Aging. (2011). Remote patient monitoring. Retrieved from http://www.techandaging.org/rpm_program_page.html
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Wang, K., Kohane, I., Bradshaw, B., & Fackler, J. (n.d.). The role of knowledge bases in patient monitoring systems. Retrieved from http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/ftp/kohane/Kohane%20KR%20in%20Monitoring.rtf
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Gardner, R. M. & Shabot, M. M. (2006). Patient-Monitoring systems. In Shortliffe. E. H., & Cimino, J. J. (Eds.), Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (3rd ed) (pp. 585-625). New York, NY: Springer Science + Business Media.
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