Week 4

Question 1

Digital health technology

Answer 1

a wide range of emergent, disruptive innovation that is used for healthcare purposes

Question 2

Digital health technologies include:

Answer 2

• Software
• Integrated Systems
• Software within hardware
• Wearables
• Platforms

Question 3

What do health technologies enable?

Answer 3

interaction between numerous types of hardware and software

Question 4

What is a foundational characteristic of digital health technologies?

Answer 4

possess significant disruptive potential to traditional or contemporary healthcare processes, workflows, and structures

Question 5

Responding to a range of societal, technological, and healthcare focuses, the new generation of digital health technology embraces what type of nature?

Answer 5

consumer-centric, personalized, and on-demand nature

Question 6

Emergent digital health technologies have generated new models of:

Answer 6

healthcare funding, practice, and delivery

Question 7

AI definitions

Answer 7

“The ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings”

“Filed of computer science dedicated to solving cognitive problems commonly associated with human intelligence, such as learning, problem solving, and pattern cognition”

Question 8

AI is commonly associated with machine learning where that computer is able to identify…

Answer 8

patterns and change its behaviour based on learned information – this is self-learning

Question 9

What are some examples of AI and machine learning?

Answer 9

advertisement personalization, facial recognition

Question 10

What is one of the most well-known AI systems currently operating in health care?

Answer 10

IBM watson

Question 11

What is IBM watson?

Answer 11

AI computing system.

Can quickly analyze large sets of data, generate insights from this data, and then present actionable insights back to human users who can use this information to improve decision making.

Can identify trends and patterns and offer evidence-informed solutions to humans through complex analytical approaches with massive amount of data, well beyond the cognitive capabilities of a humam.

Question 12

What are social robots

Answer 12

AI-enabled robots whose purpose is to interact and sometimes befriend humans

Question 13

Example of a humanoid robot

Answer 13

Pepper, acting as a greeter

Question 14

What is MEDi

Answer 14

a small humanoid robot, currently being tested as a pain management intervention for paediatric patients

Question 15

What are service drone robots used for

Answer 15

automate the delivery of supplies and other materials throughout the organization

Question 16

The rapid diffusion of intelligent robotic tech can be seen in peoples homes as:

Answer 16

smart speakers, drones that clean, home augmentation (thermostat, lights, security)

Question 17

What is big data

Answer 17

data that both contains large amounts of unstructured data and has outgrown conventional database and warehouse solutions

Question 18

Big data consists of the 3 V’s:

Answer 18

Volume: data presenting in significant size and scale that would overwhelm traditional management or analysis approaches.

Variety: the data can present in any combination of structures or unstructured forms.

Velocity: commonly, big data is accumulated or generated quickly.

Question 19

Big data can be processed and inspected to generate insights and hypotheses related to many types of healthcare issues:

Answer 19

Human resource allocation.
Efficacy of nursing care.

Question 20

What is personalized and precision medicine

Answer 20

use an individuals genetic makeup to help individualize treatments and therapies

Question 21

Examples of DIY personalized and precision medicine

Answer 21

23andME, uBiome, Navigenics

Question 22

Which specialty areas have seen an increase in telemedicine and virtual healthcare

Answer 22

home care, primary healthcare, psychiatry

Question 23

What does the Ontario Telemedicine Network provide

Answer 23

provincial-level telemedicine/videoconferencing abilities for all hospitals and most rural and remote clinics spread across the province

Question 24

What is eShift?

Answer 24

A home-care model where nurses remotely monitor up to 6 clients through a web-based platform from the point of care in the home.

Personal support technicians who operate within the home environment of the client are able to execute a wide range of care actions and tasks, as delegated by the remote supervising nurse.

Question 25

What is telepresence

Answer 25

a set of technologies, such as high definition audio, video, and other interactive elements that enable people to feel or appear as if they were present in a location where they are not physically in

Question 26

What has telepresence allowed clinicians to do

Answer 26

physically navigate around remote buildings and facilities to interact with people and context, at a distance

Question 27

Networks become smart when things are able to…

Answer 27

sense, commute, communicate, and integrate seamlessly with the surrounding environment

Question 28

Issues of security and privacy surrounding IoT devices:

Answer 28

Invasiveness of the connected networks that can sometimes hear, see, sense, and transmit data to third parties.

Questions surrounding who owns the data that is transmitted.

What the data is used for.

Question 29

What are IoT-powered or smart cities

Answer 29

improve the lives of their citizens through the promotion of more sustainable eco-friendly practices and health services that are delivered in response to individuals’ actual needs.

Determined by data from wearable sor interactions with city structures.

Question 30

Smart cities have been promoted as a potential antidote to:

Answer 30

rising number of older adults, increasing geographic dispersion of families, economic challenges

Question 31

What factors are included in the framework for change?

Answer 31

• Technology
• Vision and strategy
• Organization and culture
• Patient experience
• Physical environment
• Processes and operations
• Data and analytics

Question 32

Challenges healthcare is experienceing:

Answer 32

Technological change with cast disruptive potential.
Constrained funding.
Changing population needs.

Question 33

What are the 3 healthcare levers?

Answer 33

Demand.
Utilisation.
Supply.

Question 34

What falls under demand (healthcare levers)?

Answer 34

Ageing population.
Increased chronic illnesses.
Unnecessary presentations.
Lifestyle behaviours.

Question 35

What falls under utilization (healthcare levers)?

Answer 35

Over treatment and unnecessary tests.
Misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment.
Lack of transparency.
Expectation to fix everything.

Question 36

What falls under supply (healthcare levers)?

Answer 36

Administrative burdens.
Finding the relevant clinical information.
Overqualified resources doing basic tasks.
Increase in unit prices incl. advanced tech.

Question 37

Examples of education

Answer 37

communities, coaching

Question 38

Examples of tracking

Answer 38

sleep, stress, fitness, women’s health

Question 39

Examples of planning

Answer 39

concierge, scheduling, genetic screening

Question 40

Examples of diagnose

Answer 40

self-diagnosis, on demand, telemedicine, pharmaceutical advice

Question 41

Examples of treatment

Answer 41

medication delivery, drug adherence, gene therapy, medical 3D printing

Question 42

Examples of ongoing care

Answer 42

mental health, women’s health, diabetes, remote monitoring

Question 43

Examples of administrate

Answer 43

insurance, family medical record