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Home Health

Home health allows the remote observation and care of a patient. This technology can be applied to preventive medicine and well care through primary physicians as well as disease management, post-hospital care, and in assisted living situations. Home health is intended to lower the demands on the health care system by delivering access to physicians in a more economical manner. Many office visits and emergency room trips can be avoided by a physician's preliminary review of the situation through a videotelemedicine connection.

As the aging baby-boomer population's health needs escalate, the demand for home health care is critical. According to recent studies and workshops, home care medical and monitoring devices were the fastest growing segment of the medical device industry throughout the 1990s. And as health care costs soar, Global HouseCall can offer substantial cost savings to the patient, hospital and insurers by eliminating frequent ER and clinical visits as well as improved quality of care and cost efficiency.

Remote Health Care

Many developing countries have an acute shortage of doctors, particularly specialists. Rural health care workers, who serve most of the population, are isolated from medical support and up to date information by poor roads, and lack of technology. Video Telemedicine has many advantages in remote settings: it is cost effective, hardware and software requirements are minimal, and global networks are becoming readily available. Global HouseCall offers the technology to allow a rural health care worker using USB port enabled tools such as a stethoscope or otoscope to upload a patient's vital signs and symptoms to a doctor in another continent. The receiving physician accesses the data via a computer or smartphone to remotely examine and diagnose the patient. Global HouseCall brings health technology to emerging countries where the number of people needing medical services far exceeds the capacity of doctors to deliver medical services in person.

Diagnostic Applications

Global HouseCall offers the ability to send diagnostic images from one location to another. Global Housecall utilizes technology to allow patients to visit with physicians live for immediate care or to capture video/still images to send to physicians for later diagnosis and follow-up treatment.

Triage/ EMT

Global HouseCall technology enables a paramedic to communicate with an emergency physician for an early assessment, well before the patient's arrival at the hospital. Wireless technology is also useful in the emergency care hospital setting because emergency physicians do not have to leave their patients while consulting a handheld wireless device such as a smartphone. An example of this may include a neurosurgeon conducting stroke exams before the patient arrives; the paramedics perform the exam steps during transport while the neurologist directs and observes from the hospital. By conducting the exam during patient transport, time to diagnosis can potentially be reduced, resulting in more patients falling within the window of treatment opportunity.