Week 4 Flashcards
Digital health technology
a wide range of emergent, disruptive innovation that is used for healthcare purposes
Digital health technologies include:
- Software
- Integrated Systems
- Software within hardware
- Wearables
- Platforms
What do health technologies enable?
interaction between numerous types of hardware and software
What is a foundational characteristic of digital health technologies?
possess significant disruptive potential to traditional or contemporary healthcare processes, workflows, and structures
Responding to a range of societal, technological, and healthcare focuses, the new generation of digital health technology embraces what type of nature?
consumer-centric, personalized, and on-demand nature
Emergent digital health technologies have generated new models of:
healthcare funding, practice, and delivery
AI definitions
“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”
AI is commonly associated with machine learning where that computer is able to identify…
patterns and change its behaviour based on learned information – this is self-learning
What are some examples of AI and machine learning?
advertisement personalization, facial recognition
What is one of the most well-known AI systems currently operating in health care?
IBM watson
What is IBM watson?
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.
What are social robots
AI-enabled robots whose purpose is to interact and sometimes befriend humans
Example of a humanoid robot
Pepper, acting as a greeter
What is MEDi
a small humanoid robot, currently being tested as a pain management intervention for paediatric patients
What are service drone robots used for
automate the delivery of supplies and other materials throughout the organization
The rapid diffusion of intelligent robotic tech can be seen in peoples homes as:
smart speakers, drones that clean, home augmentation (thermostat, lights, security)
What is big data
data that both contains large amounts of unstructured data and has outgrown conventional database and warehouse solutions
Big data consists of the 3 V’s:
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.
Big data can be processed and inspected to generate insights and hypotheses related to many types of healthcare issues:
Human resource allocation.
Efficacy of nursing care.
What is personalized and precision medicine
use an individuals genetic makeup to help individualize treatments and therapies
Examples of DIY personalized and precision medicine
23andME, uBiome, Navigenics
Which specialty areas have seen an increase in telemedicine and virtual healthcare
home care, primary healthcare, psychiatry
What does the Ontario Telemedicine Network provide
provincial-level telemedicine/videoconferencing abilities for all hospitals and most rural and remote clinics spread across the province
What is eShift?
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.
