Question

Write a 2-page paper to describe how does a nursing homeowner, Jane Smith, can improve the elderly living experience at her nursing home and seeing a doctor.

1. What technology Jane can adopt to monitor and foresee possible disease and sickness the elderly have? what technology can she adopt to enhance the seeing doctor experience? (Maybe they do not have to go to the doctor's office)
2. What technology can Jane adopt to enhance the communication experience between elderly and remote family members and allowing the family member full access to the elderly medical data?
3. Describe how to balance privacy, Electronic Medical Records(EMR) security, and data sharing.

Answer 1

Technology to monitor and foresee possible diseases of elderly

• Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) technology: it consists of

1. wearable sensor technology  (e.g.firness tracers, biometric sensors,smart wristband/watch for heart rate,SPO2,)
2. Internet of Things (IoT) -e.g.Smart phones with ECG monitoring,Brain sensing headband for monitoring brain actvities

Technology to enhance the seeing doctor experience without going to doctor's office

• Smart healthcare monitoring system/ Telehealth system uses the following applications

1. Remote realtime health monitoring system -combines smart phone applications, wearable devices/sensors and fitness trackers and helps health care providers to monitor clients without being hospitalised and provides avenues for early interventions.
2. Cloud based smart home
3. Wireless sensor network -for vital signs monitoring
4. Predictive analysis and arduino- for vital data monitoring
5. WonedRing- analyses users daily activities
6. Smart -phone gateway - for BP monitoring

Above system is abbreviated as SW-SHMS and it has three layers - patient layer,data layer and hospital layer for sound detection and treatment.

Technology to enhance the communication experience between elderly and remote family members with full access to medical data

SW-SHMS can be used by remote family members to access full medical data since it is based on smart phone gateways.

Privacy of medical data can be ensured by

1.Release the information to others only with patient permission or advised by law

2.making sure only authorised persons have access to medical data

Security of medical data can be balanced by

1.employing a security officer - analyses users and security concerns

2.Audit trail program

Sharing /availability of data can be ensured by

• Keeping fault-tolerance systems, so if one component fails to deliver the data, the system will move to backup