The Digital Medicine Consortium (DiMe) on Monday unveiled four toolkits to help healthcare and life sciences organizations use data from sensors such as wearables and remote patient monitoring systems at scale. .
Four toolkits based on resources obtained from society Sensor data integration projectincluding organizations such as Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Moffitt Cancer Center, Takeda, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
DiMe CEO Jennifer Goldsack told MobiHealthNews The first toolkit to provide a logical data architecture to serve as a blueprint for healthcare organizations as they build their digital tools. It includes reference architectures that show how it can be successfully implemented, privacy and security best practices, and a design tool that allows users to map out the data flow. .
Other toolkits provide databases of standards in different regions and for different uses, resources to help organizations define their capabilities and staffing, and an implementation toolkit with a quick start guide and priority calculator.
Goldsack said using sensors for patient care isn’t necessarily a technological challenge, but it is an implementation challenge. The field is still relatively new and there are many point solutions that will not be easily scaled up.
“It doesn’t matter if every single patient you’re here to serve is using these technologies and they trust them. And indeed, you trust them,” she said. “But if you can’t then access that data to make timely decisions, it’s worthless. So those are the three vectors we talk about a lot: accessibility, reliability. and reliability.”
WHY IT IMPORTANT
If organizations want to use sensor data effectively, a streamlined clinical workflow is needed, says Goldsack. The healthcare industry has been facing a shortage doctor and nurseand more Suppliers have run out After more than two years of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
“They have a packed schedule of visits. Then they get to the end of the day, and they have to do all their charting. Now, they’re also managing a patient portal and they have to. answer all she said.
“Are we really going to have them then go through panel after panel for each of their patients using sensor technology? That doesn’t work. As doctors are now so precious in our industry, that’s basically an unacceptable premise.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Some startups focus on Remote patient monitoringconsists of Biofourmis, Athena, Alio and VitalConnect.
This isn’t DiMe’s first toolkit either. It previously released resources on digital endpoint for research and effective transition from virtual first care. Goldsack says the work on integrating sensor data builds on DiMe’s previous efforts.
“If we really want to realize the promise of all these technologies and the benefits they can bring to patients and clinicians, we have to build to scale.” she said.
“If not, we’re going to do this half-step. There will be all these intermediate steps to really get value out of the data. It won’t work for everyone; it won’t work, and it won’t work for everyone. it will limit our ability to capture the value of these new data streams.”
