Closing the Care Gap with Wearable Devices: Innovating Healthcare with Wearable Patient Monitoring

Patient-focused healthcare, driven by COVID-19 experiences, has become a hallmark for providing healthcare services to patients across all modalities of care and in the home. The ability to capture real-time patient data, no matter the location, via remote patient monitoring, and to transmit that data to providers and organizations approved by the consumer/patient, will become a critical capability for all healthcare providers. Of all the remote patient monitoring product designs, wearable medical devices are emerging as the best positioned to support the evolving patient-focused healthcare environment.

This book is for those who are evaluating, selecting, implementing, managing, or designing wearable devices to monitor the health of patients and consumers. This book will provide the knowledge to understand the issues that mitigate the risk of wearable technologies so people can deliver successful projects using these technologies. It will discuss their use in remote patient monitoring, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of physiological sensors, different wireless communication protocols, and different power sources. It will describe issues and solutions in cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance, as well as setting them up to be used in healthcare systems and by patients.

Mike DavisMike has over 40 years of experience in healthcare and healthcare IT. He completed graduate degrees in clinical pathology and clinical research at the University of Nebraska, and in business administration at Pfeiffer University. Mike held executive management positions at Gartner, HIMSS Analytics, Advisory Board Company, and Mountain Summit Advisors. Mike has been an independent consultant since 2013 advising domestic and global companies on healthcare strategies and acquisitions.Michael KirwanMichael Kirwan is Vice President of Certification and Standards, LoRa Alliance where he drives the intellectual curiosity of LoRa Alliance’s certification and standards development. With over 25+ years of introspective experience driving international certification and open standards development, he has helped to lead several alliances to success, such as the Bluetooth SIG, Continua Health Alliance, PCHAlliance, HIMSS, IEEE and is now fully committed to doing the same for LoRa Alliance.Professionally, he has worked daily with IoT technical, test & certification groups, regulatory, security, policy groups and thought leaders in open standards worldwide as a staff member, a chair and a devoted key stakeholder. Michael holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina, a BS in Industrial Engineering & Technology from Northwest Missouri State University, is PMP certified (Program Management Professional) and a recognized as a Bluetooth Qualification Consultant (BQC) and Continua Certified Expert (CCE) and aspires to be such an expert in LoRaWan in the coming years.Walt MaclayMr. Walt Maclay, President and founder of Voler Systems, is committed to delivering quality electronic products on time and on budget. Voler Systems provides integrated design, development and risk assessment of new devices, and specializes in the design of wearable devices. He has lead Voler Systems to become one of the top electronic design firms in Silicon Valley. Voler Systems is especially well known for the design of sensor interfaces, wireless, motion control, and medical devices. The company has developed medical devices, wearable devices, home health products, and products for the aging.Mr. Maclay is recognized as a domain expert in Silicon Valley technical consulting associations. He has spoken on sensors, wearable devices, wireless communication, and low power design. From 2008 to 2010 he was President of the Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA). He is a senior life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley. He has been an instructor at Foothill College in the Product Realization Certificate Program, teaching successful new product introduction skills. He has applied his outstanding leadership to many multidisciplinary teams that have delivered quality electronic devices. Mr. Maclay holds a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. Mr. Maclay is active in helping technology startup companies. He has participated in angel investor groups and has advised dozens of startup companies on technical and funding issues. He has mentored startups at Techstars and Cleantech Open. He is a reviewer for NSF SBIR grants. As founder of his own company, he has dealt with issues of funding, product development, marketing, sales, and finance, giving him the experience to advise others. Voler Systems is a member of a technology consortium, the Product Realization Group, which provides all the services to introduce new technology products. Mr. Maclay started and led two forums for CEOs of small companies to discuss issues of importance to them. Harry P. PappasPappas is a successful, High Tech., Serial entrepreneur with a strong focus on the health technology sector. He is a strong believer in applying technology to transform the health and wellness community in today’s “Continuum of care”, from the hospital, to the primary care giver, and to the patient’s Smart Home. Pappas firmly believes that the world of digital health is being driven by the adoption of technology and therefore the need for Quality, ON-GOING education. Harry is a global, thought leader and has been a tech geek since the age of 12. He is a speaker at many Health and Wellness conferences and trade shows around the world. He and his team are the producers of the award winning “Intelligent Health Pavilion ™ ” a technology centric, DIGITAL HOSPITAL, that you may have visited at many trade shows around the world, including at HIMSS over the last TEN years.Pappas is the Founder & CEO of the Intelligent Health Association, a global, Social Purpose, educational, technology centric organization dedicated to helping educate members of the Healthcare community on the adoption of new technologies, new software, smart drugs, apply digital therapeutics and APPS that can improve patient care, patient outcomes, and patient safety, while driving down the cost of Healthcare.Harry is also the creator of the ( i-HOME ™), an “In Context” concept that demonstrates, a plethora of health and wellness technologies placed in a Digital Smart Home setting. Harry was developing the concept of the “Smart Home” utilizing Steve Jobs, original Apple “NEWTON” PDA device many years ago. He is clearly an “out of the box thinker” and a long-term strategic player in the world of health technologies for the Digital hospital and for today’s Smart Home. Harry is unique in that he has “hands-on” experience with a wide variety of technology and software development projects as they relate to the health and wellness industries. He has been ahead of the technology curve most of his life and was developing data driven, e-commerce web sites back in 1994. Harry is an internationally recognized thought leader with auto-ID, BLE, NFC, RFID, RTLS, Sensors, Voice, Robotics, and Wireless technologies. He has been presenting educational programs around the world since 2001.