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In-Home Medical Device Assist Health Management

By HospiMedica staff writers
Posted on 06 Aug 2008
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An in-home medical device enables caregivers to provide their patients with more personalized care at home, while also engaging and empowering patients to take a more active and positive role in their own care.

The Intel Health Guide is a comprehensive solution that combines an in-home patient device with an online interface, allowing clinicians to monitor patients and remotely manage care. The single box design has a fold-down touchscreen, contains a 40 GB hard drive, a built-in camera, and universal serial bus (USB) and Bluetooth connectivity. The Health Guide offers interactive tools for personalized care management and integrates vital sign collection, patient reminders, multimedia educational content, and feedback and communications tools such as video conferencing and e-mail. The device can connect to specific models of wired and wireless medical devices, including blood pressure (BP) monitors, glucose meters, pulse oximeters, peak flow meters, and weight scales. The Health Guide stores and displays the collected information on a touchscreen and sends the data to a secure host server, where health care professionals can review the information. Patients using the Health Guide can monitor their health status, communicate with care teams, and learn about their medical conditions. The Intel Health Guide is a product of Intel (Santa Clara, CA, USA), and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

"This is an important product that will improve the state and cost of health care around the world," said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Health Group. "It results from years of research to understand the needs of the aging population and how technology can support them in their daily lives. With more people living with chronic diseases, we believe care can be increasingly moved outside of the hospital to the home. Through our research, we've learned that a home-based model of care becomes more than just delivering care to patients at home – it is about creating connections to family, friends, caregivers, and the care team."

The Intel Health Guide is Intel's first foray into the medical device category. Intel has completed pilot studies in the United States and United Kingdom to facilitate patients' and clinicians' understanding of the system. Intel intends to conduct additional pilot studies with health care organizations worldwide to understand how the guide integrates with different care management models in the home.


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