From the January/February 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
As an extension of these analyses, the retracing of patient conditions for those experiencing emergency medical events may highlight inflection points in the dataset that predict patient decline. Such indicators could be used to assess patient data as it comes in and determine whether or not condition deterioration is imminent.
Remote monitoring/ interventions, patient success
The new orientation of patient care around remote interventions offers an additional metric for correlation with patient success: time spent in contact with care professionals and associated resources, which provides a window into the care context for the remote monitoring measurements used to make the absolute risk assessment. Additional factors that ought to be explored along the same lines of correlation analysis are both patient-intrinsic qualities (age, gender, and other vital statistics), as well as patient-extrinsic factors (time to care initiation following diagnosis, perceived quality of care, etc.).
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Taken together, the determination of the correlative predictive power of each of these additional metrics, whether individually or in concert, will provide additional metrics useful for assessment of patient risk and adjustment of treatment for those who need additional assistance. Therefore, it offers digital health companies the opportunity to both better understand the predictive power of current patient risk assessment strategies and identify new avenues for high-risk patient identification. Such confirmation of existing methods and introduction of new techniques will foment the expansion of the digital care management industry, as the quality of patient outcomes and satisfaction increase as a result of effective, proactive patient care.
About the author: Bipin Thomas is a renowned global thought-leader on consumer-centric health care transformation. Thomas is an editorial advisory board member of DOTmed HealthCare Business News and chairman of ICURO, a consumercentric digital care outcomes research and management organization, where he is redefining personalized care delivery by connecting all stakeholders in the emerging health care ecosystem.Back to HCB News
