Toward connected personal healthcare: Keynote address

Abstract

Modern healthcare systems are still struggling to provide patient-centered healthcare instead of clinician-centered, as it is essential to implement major aspects of modern healthcare such as continuity of care, evidence-based treatment and more importantly preventing medical mistakes. In order to implement patient-centered, it is necessary to collect all the relevant clinical /non-clinical data for each patient and make those available at the time of needs. However, such task requires lots of personal effort and the coordination from the care givers so it is not being done properly. In this talk, Ill present medical sensor and cloud based personal clinical data collection, analysis, and patient education based on the collected data. The collection of such clinical data will be stored in the personal health record system and make it available for query and update so it can be helpful in making important medical decisions. Ill also discuss about the barriers in personal health record adoption and how to lift such barriers so patient-centered healthcare may be possible.