Making Sophisticated SensingAccessible
Lessons from Telehealthcare
Stephen Hope
Business Development Manager
Docobo Ltd
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Docobo LtdEnabling Technologies supporting Community care
• UK company formed in 2001
• Regulatory Status - A medical device and solutions company (accredited toEN13485)– doc@HOME Telehealth System is a Class I medical device, HealthHUB and
CarePortal are Class IIa
• Telehealth – Managing patients– Self care
– Risk Stratification and Professional care
• Care delivery logistics – Managing Staff– Staff self management
– Performance management
• Assisted Living – Managing the elderly and vulnerable– Social isolation, fragmented families, digital divide
– Daughter/son responsibilities
– Access to support and wider world
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Telehealth
Remotely monitoring vital signs and lifestyle ofpatients on a regular basis and as frequently asthe patient’s condition requires
Passing and sharing this information toappropriate clinicians to allow early intervention;on going management of patients
Improving outcomes
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doc@HOME® Telehealth System Overview
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Accessibility• Making a product that can be used by people with different
needs and abilities– Design for All
• Lowest Common Denominator
• Legal Connotations
– Assistive Technology Approach• Helping people use the features available that suit them ?
• Increasing availability to a wider market demographic– making a product available at an affordable consumer level price point
• One drives the other through economies of scale
• “I want one of those” is just as important in the HealthMarket both private and statutory to ensure compliance
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USABILITY
Making a product or service that can be used bypeople with different needs and abilities
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Telehealth Intervention Process• Telehealth supports care delivery, it doesn’t do the care. But it
provides:– Regular collection of information from the home
• Vital signs, symptoms, quality of life, patient experience, various validatedquestionnaires
– Self Management functionality
• Need to understand NEED and ABILITY– NEED – What is a patients condition and what care do they need
– ABILITY – How Activated are they and how IT literate are they?
• Need Intelligent identification– Risk Stratification, Patient Activation Measure (PAM) and IT capability
• Need Care Delivery process change
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Patient Activation Measure (PAM) Stages of Activation
Stage 1 – Believes Active Role Important:
Taking an active role in my own health care is the most important factor indetermining my health and ability to function.
Stage 2 – Confidence and Knowledge to Take Action:
I am confident that I can follow through on medical treatments I need to do athome.
Stage 3 – Taking Action:
I am able to handle symptoms of my health condition on my own at home.
I have made the changes in my lifestyle like diet and exercise that arerecommended for my health condition.
Stage 4 – Staying the Course Under Stress:I am confident I can figure out solutions when new situations or problems arisewith my health condition.
I am confident that I can maintain lifestyle changes like diet and exercise evenduring times of stress.
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The Human Sensor System• The use of Sensors in the remote monitoring Telehealthcare
domain is different from many M2M applications in thatmostly there is a human being at both ends of the sensorsystem.
• In addition it is not just the capturing of physiological datathrough medical device sensors that is required but alsosymptomatic data needs to be captured in order to give aholistic view of the patient.
• In designing such a system consideration has to be given thatthere are two different user groups with differentrequirements.
• The Patient and The Clinician
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The Patient Perspective
User Centred Design
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Options to meet need and ability
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GPRS, 3GBroadband
Patient & Care GiverPatient & Care Giver
•Elderly•Poorly•Symptomatic
•Elderly•Poorly•Symptomatic
•IT Literate•Mild LTC’sDiabetes IIAsthma
•IT Literate•Mild LTC’sDiabetes IIAsthma
Case Management Wellness
GPRS, 3GBroadbandPSTN
CarePortal™
GPRS, 3GBroadband
Smartphones
DocoboAPP & DocoboWEB™ (Email/SMS with URL
Encrypted and secure data
TabletPCs & Macs Laptop
GPRS, 3GBroadband
GPRS, 3GWiFi/Broadband
Telehealth: Access choice according to clinical need, nurse/patient preferenceand cost
TV
GPRS, 3GBroadband
ClinicalDatabase
ClinicalDatabase
doc@HOME®
Flexible question selection to enable management of all co-morbidities and clinical pathways for each patient
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Designing for the Patient• The patient may suffer from a range of Co-Morbid conditions
and disabilities and may be quite poorly
• The patient needs to be encouraged to maintain complianceto achieve a consistent result over a long period of time
• The equipment has to be easy to use and adaptable forpeople with different needs and abilities – even theTechnophobes!
• Handheld Equipment in particular has to be rugged!
• The equipment still has to perform the clinical role for which itis intended
• User-centred design processes are key for product andservice success remembering the Clinician and Patient areboth users
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CAREPORTAL® – Solution for Assisted Living
• CAREPORTAL® is asolution consisting ofbespoke Docobodesigned hardware andan open source softwareplatform
• Designed to be able togive an older or lesstechnically capable useraccess to health, socialnetworks and services
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CAREPORTAL® is a Class IIa Medical Device Platform
CAREPORTAL®
• Typical Lead I ECG recording• Heart Rate and Pulse Rate display• 20 second rhythm strip• 20 second heart rate variability• 20 second Aortic Arch Blood Flow
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Asking the Customer
The Customer may be the Patient or the Commissioner of theService
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Age UK Headquarters, Leeds
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COPD Patients Group Solent NHS Trust
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Becker’s Disease Subject working with M3S Joystick
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Rheumatoid Subject working with Mini Keyboard
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Manual or Automated Entry of Physiological Data
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CAREPORTAL® – Solution for Assisted Living
• CAREPORTAL® is asolution consisting ofbespoke Docobodesigned hardware andan open source softwareplatform
• Designed to be able togive an older or lesstechnically capable useraccess to health, socialnetworks and services
• Buttons as well as aTouchscreen
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CAREPORTAL® is a Class IIa Medical Device Platform
The Clinician Perspective
Still User Centred Design!
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Patient & Care GiverPatient & Care Giver•Elderly•Poorly•Symptomatic
•Elderly•Poorly•Symptomatic
•IT Literate•Mild LTC’sDiabetes IIAsthma
•IT Literate•Mild LTC’sDiabetes IIAsthma
Case Management Wellness
GPRS, 3GBroadband
CarePortal® HealthHUB®
GPRS, POTS GPRS, 3GBroadband
Tablet Apps
Email / SMSwith URL
WebApplication
WebApplication
BrowserBrowser
•Case Co-ordinators•Clinical Teams
ClinicalDatabase
ClinicalDatabase
doc@HOME® Infrastructure Overview
doc@HOME®
Web ServicesHL7 InterfaceWeb ServicesHL7 Interface
3rd PartyAnalytics3rd PartyAnalytics
3rd PartyeHealthvendors
3rd PartyeHealthvendors
• Clinical decision support•Trending
docoboWEB™
Encrypted and secure data
Any peripheral manufacturer of yourchoice
Case NotesCase Notes
• Interventions• Observations• Free text
AlertGenerator
AlertGenerator
• Email/SMS• Multi Routing• Patient Specific
ReportGenerator
ReportGenerator
• pdf reports• .csv files• KPI reporting
Prompts andquestions etcPrompts andquestions etc
SchedulingEngine
SchedulingEngine
• Any combination of questions, changed anytime• Free text two-way messaging and notes• Education, Empowerment and Self Management
Individual Care Plan•Tailored toneeds of patient.•Self Management•Medication management
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The Clinician Perspective• Clinicians – Doctors or often Community Matrons have to be
able to see all the collected data - physiological data from themedical sensors and symptomatic data from the humansensors
• The sensor data must be presented in a format from whichthey are able make a rapid assessment of the patient throughtrend analysis.
• The patient may be one of perhaps 50 - 100 within a virtualward so that the information from the patient has tovisualised in such a way to minimise the interaction time perpatient say around 2 minutes
• A course of action (if one is required) needs to be determinedand recorded in the patient record such as set alerts orarrange a visit of the Community Nurse
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Visualising the Data
Day-to-Day Patient Management
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Web based Clinical Interface
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Clinicians View – Fixed or Mobile
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Closing the Loop
Day-to-Day Patient Management
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EXTENDING THE BOUNDARIES OFTELEHEALTH
Increasing availability to a wider marketdemographic
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Older/vulnerable people- Independence- Social Isolation
- Fragmented Families- Digital Divide
- Support for Daily livingactivities
- “Soft Assistance”
Medium LTC
(Less symptomatic )
Mild LTC
(Type2 Diabetes, Asthma,Hypertension
Complex LTC(poorly and
symptomaticCOPD and CHF etc)
Extending the boundaries of Telehealth.......
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Telerehabilitation
• Use of advanced Telehealth techniques andsensors for the treatment of those with Spinaland Neurological Injuries
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The “One Stop Shop"
Addressing Social Isolation
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TelehealthServices
TelehealthServices
doc@HOME®doc@HOME®
OtherHealth ITSystems
OtherHealth ITSystems
WebBrowser
WebBrowser
ClinicalTeamseNABLE™ Service ProvisioningeNABLE™ Service ProvisioningTelehealth Service Provisioning
ClientPatient & Care GiverClientPatient & Care Giver•Elderly•Poorly•Symptomatic
•Elderly•Poorly•Symptomatic
•IT Literate•Mild LTC’sDiabetes IIAsthma
•IT Literate•Mild LTC’sDiabetes IIAsthma
Case Management Wellness
Docobo Independence Infrastructure Overview
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3rd PartyServices3rd PartyServices
DeliveredMeals
DeliveredMeals OtherOther
GPRS, 3GBroadband
Tablet Apps Email / SMSwith URL
HealthHUB®
GPRS, POTS
SocialContactSocial
Contact
Peer toPeer
groups
Peer toPeer
groups
Family Webaccess• Diary• Photos
Family Webaccess• Diary• Photos
BeTogether™
Communityaccess
Communityaccess
AssistanceServices
AssistanceServices
Community groups:• 3rd sector• Local volunteer• Private providers
CommunityAssist
CommunityAssist
WebBrowser
WebBrowser
concierge@HOME™
EnvironmentalControlsInterface
EnvironmentalControlsInterface
GPRS, 3GBroadband
LocationServicesLocationServices
CarePortal®
Increasing Customer Device Choice
From Illness to Wellness – Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
(Remember Its not a Medical Device!)
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DocoboWEB simply requires the device to run a browser.
MicrosoftInternetExplorer
AppleSafari
GoogleChrome
MozillaFirefox
DocoboWEB:
GPRS, 3GBroadband
GPRS, 3GBroadbandPSTN
Freedom® Tablet
GPRS, 3GBroadband
Smartphones
ClinicalDatabase
ClinicalDatabase
doc@HOME®
Encrypted and secure data
TabletPCs & Macs Laptop
GPRS, 3GBroadband
GPRS, 3GWiFi/Broadband
TV
GPRS, 3GBroadband
In operation the user is sent anemail or SMS containing a URLwhich links to the user’s webpage.
DocoboWEB does not apply toCarePortal or HealthHub
Integrated Telehealth and Telecare
Adding physical ADL Sensor data to physiologicaland symptomatic data
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Interoperable Solutions for Assisted Living
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TynetecActivityTrend
Analysis
IP basedconnectivity
ADL Alerts
Assisted Livingand
EnvironmentalControl
Energy Management andEnvironmental Data to Health Record
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Integrated Care Professional View – Visualising beyond Health
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THE BUSINESS MODEL
Can we afford to deploy more sophisticated sensing?
WHO PAYS!
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Implementation Considerations - The Business Model
• In the UK Health services have been provided free at the Point ofdelivery– Still a strong cultural belief– Can you compete with free in a consumer market!
• Some Local Authority Services are free but others are paid for by theEnd Customer– Generally accepted as the status quo
• What will be the impact of the planned Integration of Health and SocialServices in 2015– Unlikely that more services will be free but nobody left to commission them
• Are Community and Social inclusion digital services deemedbeneficial for personal well being - health or welfare - free at the pointof delivery -or does the customer pay for the service and connectivity?– Currently Telehealth M2M telecom costs in the monitoring costs paid by the
authority– Greater expectation of Broadband Multimedia services
• For the Service Provider when does a controlled 2G M2Mconnection become an uncontrolled 3G Data service?
• Network Connectivity is key but how long will 2G M2M bethere with LTE-M on the horizon?
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Conclusion• The value of involving our potential end user
customers throughout the design process is fullyproven and brought an enthusiastic response.
• Integrated interoperable services are key to deliveringeconomies of scale to make sophisticated sensingaccessible
• The enthusiasm from the various service providers toprovide integrated services is somewhat less (evenwith 2015 looming!)
• The huge cost of back office systems to support theindividual consumer market should not be forgottenwhen developing the Business Case.
• WHO PAYS, HOW and to WHOM is still the greatestconsideration
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Thank You
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