Chip Cards Help Monitor Home Patients
While many provider organizations are looking for ways to electronically connect home-bound patients to clinicians, a new effort combines chip technology with a decidedly low-tech featurea paper card.
While many provider organizations are looking for ways to electronically connect home-bound patients to clinicians, a new effort combines chip technology with a decidedly low-tech feature—a paper card.
The program, designed to regularly monitor the health status of patients, uses a card with buttons that have an embedded chip in them. Patients press a button to start and then press other buttons to answer pre-selected questions about how they feel, medication adherence, pain levels and other appropriate indicators.
Information from the pressed chips is wirelessly transmitted to a cell phone, USB reader on a computer, or a home monitoring station. The information then is transmitted to personal health records vendor NoMoreClipboard and put into a PHR for a patient or family member, and in a Web portal for appropriate clinicians and case managers to access.
The card/technology vendor is iMPak Health, a joint venture of Meridian Health, a six-hospital delivery system in New Jersey, and CYPAK AB of Sweden. On the market now are cards to monitor pain, COPD, asthma, symptoms, stress, heart failure, and food & nutrition.
Meridian Health has piloted the cards for two years and has found patients find them very easy to use, says Mark Duda, consumer product sales representative. A card program can be rolled in 45 to 60 days, the cards cost about $30 apiece, and last for six to nine months, says Jeff Donnell, president at NoMoreClipboard. They both spoke with Health Data Management at HIMSS12.
The program, designed to regularly monitor the health status of patients, uses a card with buttons that have an embedded chip in them. Patients press a button to start and then press other buttons to answer pre-selected questions about how they feel, medication adherence, pain levels and other appropriate indicators.
Information from the pressed chips is wirelessly transmitted to a cell phone, USB reader on a computer, or a home monitoring station. The information then is transmitted to personal health records vendor NoMoreClipboard and put into a PHR for a patient or family member, and in a Web portal for appropriate clinicians and case managers to access.
The card/technology vendor is iMPak Health, a joint venture of Meridian Health, a six-hospital delivery system in New Jersey, and CYPAK AB of Sweden. On the market now are cards to monitor pain, COPD, asthma, symptoms, stress, heart failure, and food & nutrition.
Meridian Health has piloted the cards for two years and has found patients find them very easy to use, says Mark Duda, consumer product sales representative. A card program can be rolled in 45 to 60 days, the cards cost about $30 apiece, and last for six to nine months, says Jeff Donnell, president at NoMoreClipboard. They both spoke with Health Data Management at HIMSS12.
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