BlackBerry app tackles healthcare

ParaMed Home Health Care, in collaboration with CellTrak Technologies, is undertaking a mobile health care application that leverages the productivity features of BlackBerry smartphone devices, writes the San Francisco Chronicle.

The new application includes initial, reassessment and discharge assessments, which enable the capturing of real-time information at the point-of-care. All assessments include nursing sensitive outcomes and the ability to view results through a secure portal.

The application is built upon the CellTrak homecare platform that enables advanced enterprise capabilities to capture and analyse real-time data and trends in home care with security and confidentiality that aligns with required personal health care information.

"We have successfully completed user-testing with extremely positive feedback from our nurses," says VP, Sue Pearl-Agar.

UK company CSC has also unveiled a program in which healthcare professionals can access a patients information from anywhere using their Blackberry and a digital pen, says ChittaChatta.

The program is called 'Patient in your pocket' and with it, health care professionals can see the appointments that they have for the next day. When they are with the patient, they have all the information they need right at their fingertips. The information is protected by smart card log on and strong data encryption.

UK director of healthcare strategy at CSC, Andrew Spence, says: “Patient in your pocket plays strongly to the Department of Health's agenda of 'doing more with less'. It will cut costs and improve the delivery of care and patient satisfaction. In addition, it reduces the cost of buying laptops and the associated risk of theft.”

The CloudCare Technology Platform from MedApps aims to connect patients with their care providers and enterprise more efficiently than before, according to company officials, states TMCNet.

With a paradigm shift in computer technology, cloud computing has shifted from the traditional client-server standard to Web-based tools and applications that are flexible and scalable, and CloudCare extends the power of the MedApps Remote Health Monitoring System by moving its infrastructure to the cloud. The company says this creates a dynamic state, where drivers, client profiles and other firmware can be kept in the cloud and managed from anywhere, anytime.

As no technical expertise is involved, MedApps says while moving to the cloud, users can deploy CloudCare very easily, enabling the focus to be shifted from technology and maintenance to a patient-centric approach.