8th Annual INET Mini-Conference Mobile Data Solutions for Healthcare

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8th Annual INET Mini-ConferenceMobile Data
Solutions for Healthcare

• Lawrence Baziw
• Director Services Planning
• Bell Canada Mobility Business Solutions

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What is 1xEV-DO?

• 1xEVDO EVolution, Data Optimized
• 3G data evolution for Bell
• Typical download speeds of 400 to 700 kilobits
  per second
• Fixed, portable or fully mobile use
• Always-on experience
• Spectrally Efficient technology
• Incremental upgrade over current CDMA2000 1xRTT
  network
• Devices are backward compatible
• 1xEVDO works seamlessly with existing, IP-based
  network infrastructure

1xEV-DO Wireless Broadband User Experience
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Wireless Roadmap
RF Persistence
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Medical Processes benefit from Wireless Enablement

• Administrative
• Patient Services
• Discharge Bed Management
• Ubiquitous Information Access
• Asset Management
• Portable Device Tracking
• Medical Record Tracking
• Instant Messaging
• Inventory Management

• Clinical
• Prescription Writing and Management
• eDetailing
• Order Entry
• Results Reporting
• Clinical Documentation and Record Retrieval
• Dictation and Transcription
• Remote Patient Monitoring
• Disease Management
• Schedule Management
• Continuum of Care Coordination
• Emergency Services

• Revenue Cycle
• Eligibility Confirmation
• Authorizations and Notifications
• Charge Capture
• Formulary Management
• Referrals
• Scheduling (office and/or facility)
• Claims Status
• Denials and Appeals Management

• Consumer Services
• Disease Management
• Remote Patient Monitoring
• Clinical Trial Participation
• Immunization / Appt Reminders Scheduling
• Drug Interactions
• Access to customer information and services

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Pre-Admission EMS

• Telematics solutions using rugged modems
• Information Management solutons using rugged
  computing devices with embedded cellular modules
• Specialized Medical Equipment using rugged modems
  or rugged computing devices with embedded
  cellular modules to communicate with receiving
  hospitals

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Home Healthcare Delivery

• Increasing demand as more than 850,000 Canadians
  require Homecare
• 35K personal support workers across Canada
  working in homecare
• Limited resources have resulted in 35 of
  Canadians to receive less that satisfactory
  access to home care
• How to streamline delivery and ensure quality of
  service with little or no supervisory
  infrastructure?
• The CareLink handset for Personal Support Workers

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Urban Health Care Delivery

• Mobile on-the-spot nursing care to homeless and
  underhoused individuals in southeast Toronto
• Over 2000 patients each month at a number of
  community locations
• Over 19,0000 individuals served in 2005 alone
• Too many Patient records to maintain on the bus!
• Now all files are electronic and information is
  updated instantly both at the Health Centre and
  on the buses
• Made possible through the power of the Bell
  1xEV-DO network via Kyocera PC Cards!

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Patient Self-Management in Rural Settings

• Collaborative effort in rural, northern Ontario
  community between Bell, UHN and Nortel Networks
• Chronic diseases are a growing challenge for our
  health and social care systems and affect 1 in 3
  Canadians
• Bluetooth-enabled medical devices are used to
  transmit data to a mobile device which relays
  data back to a data repository where rules are
  applied sending alerts to a nurse practitioner or
  family physician as well as the patient by
  automated text or phone messages
• Demonstration of a technology that is applicable
  to a wide variety of chronic diseases and
  conditions such as heart failure, asthma and
  depression and builds on the demand for new and
  more effective ways to improve chronic disease
  management.