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SystiMed is a company developing innovations for cure and care. At the moment SystiMed is developing two very promising innovations.

 

Nowadays within healthcare two very large problem areas are predominantly present and have an immens negative impact on the efficiency of healthcare in the Western world. 
One large problem area consists of the sometimes insufficient coordination and communication amongst healthcare professionals. Another large problem area consists of the poor medication adherence of patients. 

Because of these two problems large parts of healthcare budgets are lost, patients recieve suboptimal treatments and a lot of unnecessary work is being done by the increasingly scarce healthcare personel.

 

AMEDS, the automatic medication dispenser system, and PMHS, the personal mobile health station, are innovative telemedicine applications in which internet and other advanced telecommunication technologies are being used to provide a solid technological platform to achieve optimal communication and coordination within healthcare systems. 

Furthermore, in these systems several advanced technologies, like sensor technology and robotics, are being used to completely automate, monitor and contol the process of presenting medication to patients. Thereby making the medication intake by patients as safe and effortless as possible. Even patients experiencing cognitive or physical shortcomings due to chronic diseases or old age, who often have to take large amounts of medicines each day, are with the support of these systems able to take their medication properly.

Apart from the above mentioned extremely usefull features AMEDS and PMHS are easily expandible, making other usefull technological functionalities possible:

 

• Teleconferencing techniques for fast and efficient communication
• Telediagnostics and active telemonitoring of medical parameters
• Dispensing medicines other than oral drugs
• Optimal electronic support for medical doctors prescribing drugs (EPS; electronic prescription system)

 

So, by the intelligent use of telemedicine applications a solution for two of the largest, most resilient and costly problem areas within healthcare today can become a reality.

 

Arthur A Calbo MD

Topic Highlight: "Medicine goes digital"

It has become clear that in the coming years healthcare throughout the western world will undergo major changes. These changes are much needed as healthcare is facing some great challenges in the near future, for instance due to the upcoming increase in elder population in a lot of countries in the Western world.

As is stated by dr Eric Topol, cardiologist, in his interesting Ted-talk technological accomplishments coming from other sectors, like wireless telecommunication techniques, sensor technology or robotics, can fortunately have profound positive impacts on these healthcare changes. AMEDS and PMHS are advanced examples of this trend of innovation.

Topic Highlight: 'Engineers design pill that signals it has been swallowed'

Monitoring of medication adherence has in the past been very difficult and always indirect. A technical innovation by the University of Florida can make the monitoring of medication adherence direct and more reliable:

Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication, University of Florida engineering researchers have added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule. The prototype is intended to pave the way for mass-produced pills that, when ingested, automatically alert doctors, loved ones or scientists working with patients in clinical drug trials. 

See this link here for more information. You will also find some information about the tremendous impact of the phenomenon 'medication non-adherence'.

At this site you will find further information about AMEDS and PMHS, but also other promissing innovative applications for healthcare.

Submitted by admin on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 09:45