nfc in personal connected health
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Presentation by Chuck Parker of Continua Health Care at the March 2014 Spotlight for Developers Day.TRANSCRIPT
NFC in Personal Connected Health
NFC Forum Developers Spotlight
March 2014
Chuck Parker, Executive Director
Continua Health Alliance
Plug into opportunity
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What We Do: Ensuring Connectivity in Personal
Connected Health (PCH)
• Publish Design Guidelines that combine & apply existing
standards to create an end-to-end, plug-and-play
ecosystem in PCH
• Certify products, systems and services for compliance
with Continua’s Design Guidelines
• Promote favorable operating climate for PCH through
advocacy & coordination
• Creating a global market for personal connected health
• Connect leading technology developers, innovators and
healthcare organizations
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How We’re Different
Only organization convening global technology
standards in Personal Connected Health (PCH)
Uniquely focused on end-to-end, plug-and-play
connectivity to advance the PCH ecosystem
Founder of the Personal Connected Health
Alliance (PCHA), with HIMSS and mHealth Summit,
to represent the voice of consumers in PCH
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A New Global Standard
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
11073
Sensors PAN Transport EHRs
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Continua’s Architecture: Enabling PCH at the Interface
Health
Record
Network
(HRN)
Interface
Personal Device
Weight Scale
Pulse Oximeter
Independent
Living Activity
Cardio / Strength
Medication
Adherence
Glucose Meter
Pulse /
Blood Pressure
Thermometer
Physical Activity
Peak Flow
Electrocardiogram
Insulin Pump
Aggregation
Manager
Personal
Area
Network
(PAN)
Interface
Wide
Area
Network
(WAN)
Interface
Telehealth
Service
Center
Health
Records/
Networks
EHR
PHR
NHIN
HIE
WiFi, 2G, 3G &
4G
Consumer Interfaces
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Proximity Technologies
Key Characteristics to Succeed in Connected Health
• Continuous
• Reliable
• User-friendly
– Simple pairing
– Long use
• Secure
• Cost-effective
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Proximity Technologies
Opportunities in Connected Health
• Condition management: wireless glucose monitoring in diabetes
• Fitness & wellness: home-based tracking of exercise and sleep
• Prevention: pre-diabetes, pre-hypertension
• General health management: weight loss tracking
• Aging in place: motion sensing, medication reminders
• Public health & safety
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NFC/Continua Certified: Wellness Connected
• A&D Medical & SONY
• Enables access to health information anywhere, anytime
– Devices fitted with NFC send data to smart phone or computer
– Uses SONY’s RCS360/S, NFC USB Dongle for contactless transactions/personal authentication
– Other devices include BP monitor, weight scale, activity monitor
– Works with Microsoft HealthVault, Wellness Connected Android App
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NFC/Continua Certified: Home Health Hub
• Freescale
• Handles all wired and wireless protocols for cloud computers
• Analyzes data and displays on a tablet
• Works with BP monitors, blood glucomters, weight scales, pulse oximeters and more
• Microsoft HealthVault compatible
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Disaster Management Use Case:
Disaster Cardiovascular Prevention Network (DCAP)
• Remote blood pressure monitoring for earthquake
survivors in an evacuation camp
• Objective: prevent CV events in high risk survivors
• Deployed novel solution with component devices
previously certified by Continua
– NFC ID cards and readers
• Participants self-monitored; data uploaded from evacuation
camp and relayed to Jichi University for physician review;
• According to participating companies, deploying certified technologies: – reduced launch time by ten weeks (84%)
– saved USD 139,000
• Program credited with saving lives
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DCAP Technical Solution
Alive: Gateway firmware development
Panasonic: PC
Toppan Forms: NFC ID cards and NFC card
reader
Ryoyo Electro: Data center/server
Qute: Web application development
Intel: Project coordination
A&D: Fully automatic blood pressure
monitors
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Patient ID card and
ID card reader
3G Data Transmission
Module
Gateway Blood Pressure
Monitor with
BT
Internet
Cloud / Data
Center
Data Server
System
PC
Data viewer
Web
application
DCAP System Configuration
←Standards
→
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Healthcare Delivery: Denmark
• Adopted reference architectures and national standards
for health IT
• Uses: – secure collection, transmission and storage of personal
health data from patients’ homes to healthcare providers
across the country
– sharing of medical documents and images
– management of health records, medical appointments and
other related information
– enable independent living
– develop chronic disease programs
• Ensures personal health devices and services are easy
to deploy, secure and convenient for patients and
providers
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Continua Health Alliance The Engine for a Plug and Play World
Chuck Parker
Executive Director
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