Connecting Lives Adding Mobility to Healthcare

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Connecting Lives Adding Mobility to Healthcare

• Abdullah Al-Kaabi
• Chief Operating Officer

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Agenda

• Using the mobile phone as a medic to benefit
  patients, doctors, care givers, hospitals and
  governments
• Remote patient monitoring for chronic illnesses
• Advances in body area networks (BAN) and the
  applications
• MobiCare Makes better economic sense

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Trends in web health
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Growing dependency of healthcare seekers on the
internet
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Cost of Chronic Diseases on Productivity
control
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The mobile phone the future all-in-one medical
device

• Trauma Care
• For hospital workers on the move
• For home care workers
• During short-term follow-up on acute cases
• In long-term monitoring of chronic diseases
• Cardiac monitoring
• Diabetes
• Blood Pressure
• Pregnancy
• For the supervision of critically ill patients

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Pulse Monitoring ICU on Mobile
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An Emergency Scenario
SOS - DOC
CALL
TRANSFER
TRANSFER
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Telemedicine - Teleradiology
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Long-term monitoring of diabetes
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MobiCare Functional Architecture
Applications Cardio, Diabees, Pregnancy
Mobile-Radiology, Imaging, ECG/EEG
MobiCare Service Layer
Wearable Bio-Sensors
BAN Communications Layer
Private BAN - Layer
Hospital / Healthcare Providers
Sensors
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BAN Body Area Networks
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Introduction

• Body area sensors can enable novel applications
  in and beyond healthcare, but research must
  address obstacles such as size, cost,
  compatibility, and perceived value before
  networks that use such sensors can become
  widespread.

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A Typical BAN Architecture
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Requirements

• Value. Perceived value can depend on many
  factors, such as assessment ability, but overall,
  the BASN must improve its users quality of life.
• Safety. Wearable and implanted sensors will need
  to be biocompatible and unobtrusive to prevent
  harm to the user.
• Safety-critical applications must have
  fault-tolerantoperation.
• Security. Unauthorized access or manipulation of
  system function could have severe consequences.
  Security measures such as user authentication
  will prevent such consequences.
• Privacy. BASNs will be entrusted with potentially
  sensitive information about people. Protecting
  user privacy will require both technical and
  nontechnical solutions. BASN packaging will need
  to be inconspicuous to avoid drawing attention to
  medical conditions. Encryption will be necessary
  to protect sensitive data, and encryption
  mechanisms will need to be resource-aware.
• Compatibility. BASN nodes need to interoperate
  with other BASN nodes, existing inter-BASN
  networks, and even with electronic health record
  systems. This will require standardization of
  communication protocols and data storage formats.
• Ease of use. Wearable BASN nodes will need to be
  small, unobtrusive, ergonomic, easy to put on,
  few in number, and even stylish. On-body and
  off-body user interfaces will need intuitive
  controls and presentation of information.

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Connecting Lives
Makes better economic sense
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Mobicare - Ecosystem
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Better Economic Sense
Average Cost of health care per week when
hospitalized USD 100
Average Cost of healthcare per week when in a
nursing home USD 600
Average Cost of healthcare per week when in a own
home USD 200
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Hospitals in Germany can save up to 1.5 bil per
yearthrough early discharge of patients made
possible bymobile monitoring services
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