Advancements of Medical Technology

Hello and thank you for joining me today. My name is Stephanie Stanton.

I'm 1/4 year pharmacy student studying a V. C. U.

School of pharmacy and I'm completing a pharmacy informatics

rotation with dr ray chan at Sentara Independence Hospital.

Today I'm presenting on current advancements in medical technology and trends

to look out for in the near future for health care.

As we continue through the age of technology.

We have seen a major shift in the need

for remote patient monitoring due to COVID-19 there have

been many adaptations to health care to optimize resources

and to protect providers and patients from contracting the virus

most common sources of remote patient monitoring use today.

Our healthcare apps telemedicine and smart device technology.

These platforms allow providers to track

and monitor for patient specific outcomes,

reduce the number of unnecessary office visits and

provide patients alerts for preventative and personalized care.

We also see a similar china medical device technology advancements.

Vice president and chief technology officer of West Pharma explains

that when developing a new delivery drug delivery device system

There they look at three things

desirability.

Is it easy and will it beat other options out there?

Feasibility?

Is it possible from a functionality standpoint and is a platform realistic

and lastly viability economically doesn't make sense.

It is is it a good business case and will mark it pay for it?

Majority of the latest innovations in drug delivery devices

include remote patient monitoring through smart device digital technology.

These devices are capable of sinking to mobile apps via bluetooth.

This feature allows for better patient outcomes,

shareable data for providers and convenient

access to care and health information.

Other advancements such as the smart dose

injector,

allow for remote drug delivery by the patient.

For men's that are typically given in a hospital setting.

There's an increased need now more than ever to

make health care accessible and effective regardless of geography,

location and mobility, especially since the COVID-19 outbreak.

Through the use of telehealth healthcare apps and other virtual care,

we can reduce the number of unnecessary in person provider visits,

provide patients with alerts for at

home intervention and connect the patients providers

and caregivers for more integrated healthcare

and closer monitoring a disease state outcomes

Telehealth is not a new invention. In fact, we've seen it used as early as the 1960s.

However,

since the rise of the pandemic telehealth has really taken a positive trend and

increasing accessibility to healthcare by providing remote

physician visits and electronic health care.

This helped minimize exposure for both health care providers and at risk patients.

It also alleviated some of the pressures on

the health care facilities and their resources.

Telemedicine has also proven to be more clinically efficient

and creates a safer environment for patients and providers.

The newest trend and tell health is artificial intelligence.

Integrated health devices

AI integrated wearables,

track patient's vitals and share data with providers through secure cloud.

This provides opportunity for patients

with chronic conditions such as hypertension

and diabetes to become more independent and managing their own health.

In addition to preventing urgent care and emergency room visits,

telehealth robots provide remote care,

allowing physicians to interact with patients from afar.

This is especially useful in rural areas where specialists are scarce.

A telehealth robot can follow physicians at a location during rounds,

share live feeds and allow for on

screen real time consultations by the specialists.

Most of these bots are even self charging,

allowing healthcare providers to focus on

patient care instead of technology maintenance.

Self service kiosks and virtual care stations

are popping up in locations such as clinical

check in settings, pharmacies or public areas used to enter patient information,

screening questions,

vitals and even book and attend video chat physician appointments.

All of these options above are becoming prominent and necessary as

we evolve with healthcare and its trends towards remote patient care.

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health care apps are a large benefit of big data and digital medicine,

pushing focus on remote patient monitoring with patient alerts for intervention.

These apps help confirm the patient is receiving the proper

therapeutic regimen and can track outcomes for patients specific conditions.

This also increases payers willingness to cover medication if

data can prove its efficacy and patient adherence.

The following are some of the top healthcare apps used in 2021.

My sugar is a diabetes tracker app with

physician access to track blood glucose levels,

carbohydrate intake, insulin hB A one C and more.

Hell is an app used to schedule house call physician visits.

There's a rise in demand for personalized,

even homeopathic care specifically care outside of the hospital setting.

Though most house call visits from a physician would come at a high price.

This app charges $159 per home visit for patients without insurance,

not much more than an average copay.

The Teladoc app provides telehealth visits 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

It also integrates with Apple Health Care

health Kit app

to create ease of access and collaborative data for physicians and patient access.

Lastly many safe is a free app that

features reminders to take and refill medications,

drug, drug interaction alerts, prescription medication coupons and more.

This app allows

patients to share their health information with providers

and family members for more integrated health observation,

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic health conditions in

the US affecting over 10% of the population and growing.

It's the seven leading cause of death in America

to battle these statistics.

Medical device technology advancements are constantly being made for diabetic

medications to improve patient outcomes and optimize disease management.

The eye health smart wireless glucose monitoring

system approved in 2016 is a compact,

affordable efficient blood glucose monitor.

It's a 5 10 K and Ce certified system

that provides glucose tracking and sharing through secure cloud data

beyond just glucose monitoring and provides color coded graphs and

charts for both patients and providers to visualize disease progress.

This system also features both oral and insulin medication monitoring

varios smart blood glucose monitoring system was approved in 2018

and adds a hypoglycemia alert feature with GPS tracking.

In addition to basic real time metrics, the apple,

the app assists with card counting which is

essential to diabetic diet and insulin dozing.

The ever since continuous blood glucose

monitoring system was recently approved in 2019

and features an implantable fluorescent based sensor that lasts up to 90 days.

A small convenience smart transmitter for readings and six sinks

data to a mobile app for ease of access.

This system performs real time monitoring every five minutes,

providing the most up to date and

robust data for remote patient monitoring by providers

just approved last year for all ages.

The in pen,

reasonable smart insulin pen is the

next generation for remote monitoring of insulin

compatible with three fast acting insulin's human log NovoLOG and fiasco.

This pen connects to a mobile app and has features such as insulin tracking,

dose and insulin on board calculations, as well as dose reminders,

temperature alerts and shareable data for providers.

TVA has come out with a line of digital inhalers or

digit trailers for three of their dry powdered inhaler formulas.

These inhalers connect to an interactive mobile

app that provide alerts for dose reminders

and records inhalation rate time and frequency of doses taken by the patient.

Pro Air Digit Taylor is a dry powdered albuterol inhaler approved in 2019.

This medication is approved for patients four years of age and older

to treat and prevent broncho spasms.

The army and air digit taylor is a dry powdered flew tika zone Oral inhaler approved

last year for long term treatment of asthma in patients 12 years of age and older.

The air duo digit taylor is a combination

product containing both Utica Zone and sell mineral.

Also approved last year,

This inhaler is used to control and prevent symptoms of

asthma in patients 12 years of age and older.

Last year West farmers smart dose delivery device

was approved for larger than previously approved volumes.

This wearable at home drug delivery device

was developed to administer subcutaneous medications,

be a self administration outside of a health care setting.

The Smart Dose device was originally FDA approved back in 2016

to deliver up to 3.5 million liters of medication per dose.

However, recent approval has granted for the device to hold up to 10 10

of doses per cartridge based system.

As an example of recent use of this innovation, Alexian pharmaceuticals,

New P and H medication alta mira's is available in the smart dose injector.

This long acting C five complement inhibitor therapy

was just approved pashtun for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobin urea

in summary.

Many advancements in medical technology are based

around the future of remote patient monitoring.

We're seeing an increased use of healthcare apps,

telemedicine and smart devices to create accessibility,

personalized and shareable patient data for better health

care outcomes while minimizing overuse of medical resources.

Drug delivery systems are making progress through mobile app connectivity,

providing patient alerts and reminders,

as well as connecting the patient provider and

caretakers involved in the patient's well being.

With these shifts, we can see a collective effort to provide more effective,

efficient, inclusive and connective care.

Thank you so much for your time and attention.

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Thank you again. And I hope you've enjoyed this information. Have a great day.

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