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[Biomedical Telemedicine ]

CSCI E-170 Fall 2004 Final Project Lee & Oghra. [Biomedical Telemedicine ]. Usability, Privacy and Security. Overview. Goals & Objectives of Telemedicine. Benefits of Telemedicine in Healthcare. Privacy issues. Current industry players. Industrial Trend . Conclusion.

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[Biomedical Telemedicine ]

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  1. CSCI E-170 Fall 2004 Final Project Lee & Oghra [Biomedical Telemedicine ] Usability, Privacy and Security

  2. Overview • Goals & Objectives of Telemedicine. • Benefits of Telemedicine in Healthcare. • Privacy issues. • Current industry players. • Industrial Trend . • Conclusion. • Questions and Answers

  3. Goals & Objectives of Telemedicine • Increase diagnosis efficiency. • Provide integrated database for patients. • Expand time and space to monitor patients. • Saves Lives

  4. Benefits of Telemedicine in Healthcare • Cost Reduction • Increase productivities • Real-time monitoring • Saves Patients’ Lives

  5. Privacy issues • Unwanted Commercial Attention • Criminals • Legal Injustices • Social Injustices • “Lojack” dangers • Innocent Until Proven Guilty?

  6. Current industry players • Lifeguard System • Vital Positioning System • Verichip • Caregiver • Smart Bandage • V-TAM Shirt • LifeShirt

  7. Lifeguard System

  8. Lifeguard System • Sensor Pad

  9. CPOD– Crew Physiological Observation Device

  10. Base Station

  11. Base Station

  12. Vital Positioning System • Utilizes cellphones • Simplistic user setup • Detects cardiac infarctions up to 20 mins prior • Next step towards telemedicine?

  13. VeriChip ® • Applied Digital Solutions • RFID tag implanted under the skin in humans • Uses: • Communicating information about user in emergency situations • Identification and verification of individuals • Tracking • *Roughly ~2000 implanted in humans

  14. VeriChip® • How does this work at VeriChip Corp.? • Some vulnerabilities… • Likelihood of widespread use VeriChip System Overview c/o Applied Digital Solutions

  15. Caregiver’s Assistant® • Image of portable RFID tag • How does this work? • Implications… Fig. 1 Caregiver’s Assistant portable RFID tag Fig. 2 Caregiver’s Assistant System Overview c/o Intel Corp.

  16. Caregiver’s Assistant® • Intel Corporation - Research • Targeted to the elderly population • Improving Care, Reducing Cost The promise of: - Enhanced Healthcare, preventing crippling falls, monitoring the user for cognitive degeneration (taking medicines, brushing teeth) - Allowing elderly to delay moving to nursing homes and stay at home, keeping them  - Easing burden on ‘caregivers’ (children, doctors, nurses)

  17. Caregiver’s Assistant®

  18. Industrial Trend • Provide affordable healthcare environment to meet the growing aging population • Secure the privacy to protect the most vulnerable group of people • Improve of quality of life for the unfortunate • Provide critical medical information in a timely and accurate manner.

  19. Conclusion • Privacy must be addressed • Secure Transfers • Secure Data Management • Data Storage Sanitation • Corporate Responsibility

  20. Questions and Answer

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