RE: moving forward: TM activities

Michel and Chime

+ 1 to the proposal on PCHR.

One use case of PCHR is for the personal health remote monitoring and
decision support system.  For small example is to relay glucose readings
from a measuring device or an insulin pump to central monitoring engine via
mobile devices.   The data used by the monitoring engine need to be pulled
from both hospital/lab systems and individual readings from the devices.
The semantic in this scenario can be rich and interesting to work with.


Helen


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Sent: January-07-11 4:47 PM
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Subject: RE: moving forward: TM activities

> > 1 - sPCHR (semantic Personally Controlled Health Care Records) -> to
> capture
> > patient data using Semantic Web technologies, thereby making use of
> existing
> > Linked Open Data (drug, clinical, etc) and becoming a valuable 
> > source of structured information for epidemiological research, 
> > clinical research
> and
> > drug discovery. We're keen on forming closer bonds with primary
> stakeholders
> > (developers of EHR standards and software; hospitals and clinics) 
> > and the
> COI
> > group to get this done.
> 
> I would consider patients (everyday people receiving care) and PCHR 
> developers / vendors as more relevant stakeholders than healthcare 
> provider institutions and developers of EHR standards.  The nature of 
> PCHRs make them a disruptive force and very removed from the healthcare
provider ecosystem.

Yes, the patients, of course... (blush) - certainly from a user experience
point of view, but it doesn't take away from the fact that medical
specialists and institutions (e.g. billing) will *also* have to enter data
or link resources to this record (provided they have permission to do so).

 
> >   These seem like interesting directions to head out in - but we're 
> > open
> to
> > different ideas, and certainly to new participants :)  What do you
think?
> 
> Personally, I like the idea of a subgroup focused on PCHR systems.  I 
> think there might be more opportunity for Web 3.0 / 2.0 technologies 
> to make an impact in that realm than in the traditional EHR ecosystem 
> precisely because the stakeholders are already consumers of these 
> emerging technologies (so non-technical issues such as risk aversion 
> and vendor politics are not so much of a factor).
> 
> Just my $0.02
> 
> -- Chime

I'm in complete favor of this idea, and I think a number of TM participants
are as well. It's a great opportunity for us to put our skills to the test.
I will emphasize that we need to include and consult said stakeholders and
ensure that we have a path for deployment (even as a working prototype) in a
clinical setting. Opportunities towards this are most welcome.

m.

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