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Patient Monitoring Online

Faisal Masud MD, FCCPMedical Director Cardio-Vascular Intensive Care

Methodist DeBakey Heart CenterAssociate Professor Of Clinical AnesthesiologyWeill Medical College Of Cornell University

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•To err is human: Building a safer health system (Institute Of Medicine Report)

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Objectives

• The Need for Online Monitoring

• What is the current Status ?

• How does the future Look?

• How can we learn from the Oil & Gas Industry?

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What is the Need?

• Physicians and healthcare providers are Data Driven– 1. Hands on Data ( physical examination)– 2. Data from other sources ( labs, x-ray etc.)

• Walk into any Hospital, especially the Intensive Care Unit and they are data Hubs

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• Decision support tools

• Not enough Doctors, especially Specialists, are available to meet the requirement

• Quality Initiatives

• Safety Measures

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Current Status

• Online monitoring is expanding

• From Remote ICU monitoring to e-mail communication between Physicians and patients.

• X-rays, CT scans are being read at locations other than hospital and patient decisions are being made

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World's First Hospital To Introduce Remote Presence Robots In ICU

Science Daily (Mar. 15, 2005)

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Roaming robots give doctors remote access to hospital patients 24/7

29 November 2006 Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas has two robots.

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CNBC On the Money

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Telemedicine

• The eICU® and New Business Models in Health Care

– By Molly Joel Coye, M.D., MPH

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The Doctor Is (Plugged) In How remote patient monitoring lets fewer specialists provide more attentive care

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Future

• With increasing technology, ease of use, & growing acceptability by both healthcare providers and patients, ON Line monitoring will increase

• It will be breaking down barriers between countries; however, medico-legal aspects would have to addressed

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How can we Collaborate with Oil & Gas Industry?

• You all have been far ahead of us in application of On line monitoring

• It’s all about DATA

• Whether patients/ a pipe line/ a remote station, etc.

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Petrotech (Journal)

• Society doctor system. On-line monitoring of oil composition gas concentration using laser spectroscopy

• Now we also use Laser technology, how can we find a common link?

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Questions?