Question

You have a patient being discharged home with CHF and diabetes. This patient is a frequent flyer so you want to facilitate their transition to home as best as possible. In 300-500 words, identify 1- 2 important technologies you have learned about, read about or used in patient care that could be considered for use at home in order to promote patient safety for this particular patient. Explain what it is, how it is used, how it promotes safety and why it would help maintain the patient’s health and minimize the likelihood of readmission. Give the top reason for your selection and identify one improvement that you feel would enhance your identified technology.

Answer 1

many people became awareness regarding their health and approach hospital for better quality care. nowadays, the life span of people with chronic illness became longer than expected due to high quality care and health awareness of the people. however, readmission to the hospital have been increased due to changes of illess and their environment. it caused difficulty and tiring fora person with long term ilness like diabetes, heart disease. health care have implemented many new technologies to reduce readmission of patient to hospital. here are some technologies.

Remote patient monitoring: the remote patient monitoring can be used at home bythe patient. it often called as telemonitoring. it has a range of clincal grade, werabledevices and portable mobile technology. it help the patient with long term illnes such as diabetes, congestive heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. blood pressure monitor, glucose monitor,pulse oximeter, spirometers, thermometer, hand held machines are opereted and monitored Remote control monitoring system generate , monitor, analyze, report and connect the patient to health care provider

some home care agencies operate this system by setting, observing and reporting this information to physician. the health care providerobserve his patient remotely byobserving his vital signs, cardiac monitoring.because  physician can get relevent real time data. thereby the physician can get timely intervention and advices. patinet can wear vital signs monitoring watches in which ECG recording and printing and send a report to the physician in case of any heart related problem. watch itself has a defibrillation system. watch is connected his heart remote control way. when his heart becomes irreqularized, it begins to alert him and he can switch on defibrilator.this technology is helpful inpatient with heart issues.

another innovative technology is mobile access. mobile technology is one of the technology, helpful to monitor blood glucose level of a patient. patinet has continuous glucose monitoring devices which are connected to mobile. mobile helpful to inform the patient low level of glucose. another option is that free style libre to monitor glucose at home. it has a sensor and interpret blood glucose levels,scanning, and shows current blood glucose, and shows expected and decresing blood levels for next 8 hours. it help to keep a candy in hand and when he experiences a hypoglycemic symptoms and take action prior to that. in case if he has highblood glucose level, the provider orders for a continous blood glcuocse monitor along with insulin. the minimed 670 G system is often help ful to him. minimed 670 G system helps the patient duriing night because it avoids glucose checking at night and wake fulness during night. the most surprsing one is that this technology itself automatically stops, or decrease its insulin according to blood glucose level of the patient. these three glucose monitoring devices is helpful in patient with diabetes.

even wrist watch itsself has mutiple function like vital signs, sensor for falling, Electrocardigram, tracking system,glucose monitoring, defibrillator. this technology helps the patient with diabetes with congestive heat failure. it is solution to patient thereby it prevents redmission, promots safty, avoids travelling, in the case of traffic condition, or alone at home. he uses this system everywhere.

even though it has many advantages , this technology has its own disadvantage such as power failure, low battery, high cost of technology, awareness of using sytem. one  technology its self multiple function causes hanging problem, confusion itself , higher temperature of system. these are problems to be solved by this technology