pdt newsletter with medical intevia focus.

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‘Mediwall’ will be the face of the connectivity
and the primary hub for care. It will provide
the ability to rapidly construct custom
environments for diagnosis, monitoring and
care with little or no reliance on established
infrastructures. Full service standardized and
connected healthcare will be available in
traditional care centers, retail environments
and as emergency installations in war zone or
hostile environments.

‘Mediwall’ is a modular system used to
construct the multiple elements required for
21st century healthcare. Seamless
connectivity will be enabled by Intevia®-
internet connected, remotely controlled
intelligent fasteners and sensors, securing
components while controlling and
communicating with other circuits and
equipment and sensing their environments,
(available today through TZ Limited).
‘Mediwall’ and Intevia® will enable a fully
connected streamlined workflow for healthcare
beyond traditional care environments. The
widespread use of connected technology will
eliminate fragmented processes and allow a
lifetime of treatment to be instantly referenced
improving workflow and efficiency. The quality
of environment for both workers and patients
will be greatly enhanced, accelerating growth
and reducing patient recovery times.
Equipment and devices will also have
embedded intelligence, continually sensing
patient statistics and their environment, not
dissimilar to the abilities that many vehicles on
the road have today. They will be programmed
to react accordingly or take command remotely
without the need for displacing a caregiver
from their location, increasing reaction times
and reducing fatigue. The pressures of patient
to caregiver ratios will be alleviated as one
caregiver will have the ability to remotelyaccess and respond to a patient real-time from
any number of wirelessly connected devices,
decentralizing costs and workforces.
Currently, it takes approximately three minutes
to verify a patient’s insurance eligibility via the
phone or web upon admission. RFID tagging
and biometric scanning will verify eligibility
automatically as you arrive or enable a patient
to ‘check in’ from home online. Insurance
companies and care providers will be
encouraged as cost reductions are dramatically
reduced due to connectivity, speedier diagnosis
and treatment. Providers will share the
necessary information with insurance groups
for them to determine coverage and costs
accurately and in a timely manner. The rapid
evolution of telehealth services will allow
patients to be treated and monitored from
home, linking them real-time via the internet to
their informed primary healthcare providers.
The advent of e-records and telehealth
monitoring will enable patients and caregivers
to automatically be sent emails of weekly or
monthly progress with reminders of follow-up
schedules. Recommendations on ways to
optimize health will be sent as regularly as
e-statements, all based upon the data gathered.
Patients will be equipped with a ‘dashboard’
providing unprecedented freedom and
accessibility while replacing multiple control
and communication devices found in today’s
care centers. As a web enabled device, the
‘dashboard’ allows patients to remain
connected throughout their experience, offering
a means of communicating with loved ones and
caregivers, controlling and accessing media,
entertainment and their immediate
environments. The dashboard will also enable
caregivers to manage diet and medication
cycles by connecting to dispensers and trays
and controoling their sequence times and
dosing. RFID technology will ensure the right
medication is only dispensed to the correct
patients, eliminating error.
Personal experience is very often the most
dynamic catalyst for evolution. PDT began to
identify patterns and once the causes that
affect those patterns were understood cues
from parallel industries and solutions began to
present themselves. The ‘Mediwall’ environment
is the interface to a streamlined workflow
that extends possibilities, improves efficiency
and increases the quality of experience for both
care givers and patients.
-Tim J. Morton & Clifford Krapfl




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tm