[Biomedical Telemedicine ]

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Biomedical Telemedicine
CSCI E-170 Fall 2004 Final Project Lee Oghra

• Usability, Privacy and Security

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Overview

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

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Goals Objectives of Telemedicine

• Increase diagnosis efficiency.
• Provide integrated database for patients.
• Expand time and space to monitor patients.
• Saves Lives

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Benefits of Telemedicine in Healthcare

• Cost Reduction
• Increase productivities
• Real-time monitoring
• Saves Patients Lives

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Privacy issues

• Unwanted Commercial Attention
• Criminals
• Legal Injustices
• Social Injustices
• Lojack dangers
• Innocent Until Proven Guilty?

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Current industry players

• Lifeguard System
• Vital Positioning System
• Verichip
• Caregiver
• Smart Bandage
• V-TAM Shirt
• LifeShirt

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Lifeguard System
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Lifeguard System

• Sensor Pad

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CPOD Crew Physiological Observation Device
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Base Station
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Base Station
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Vital Positioning System

• Utilizes cellphones
• Simplistic user setup
• Detects cardiac infarctions up to 20 mins prior
• Next step towards telemedicine?

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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

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VeriChip

• How does this work at VeriChip Corp.?
• Some vulnerabilities
• Likelihood of widespread use

VeriChip System Overview c/o Applied Digital
Solutions
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Caregivers Assistant

• Image of portable RFID tag
• How does this work?
• Implications

Fig. 1 Caregivers Assistant portable RFID
tag Fig. 2 Caregivers Assistant System
Overview c/o Intel Corp.
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Caregivers 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)

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Caregivers Assistant
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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.

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Conclusion

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

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Questions and Answer