Successful pervasive wellness programs require subject compliance and receptivity to personalized wellness information and advice. Novel technology focused approaches can leverage ubiquitous physiologic sensing, the power of data mining and informatics that can “nudge” subjects toward health positive lifestyles. We developed a ubiquitous wellness monitoring system embedded in a home environment (termed “telehomecare”) that measured cardiovascular/pulmonary parameters, body temperature, gait, breathing, mood, and socialization passively (termed “passive wellness monitoring”). The direct result of employing pervasive wellness monitoring programs are reduced costs of healthcare since it delays or avoids many of the outcomes of chronic disease, reduced medical interventions, an improvement in mental health, and a reduction in  caregiver burdens.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain and evaluate some of the passive wellness monitoring systems that are currently on the market
• Review which systems have been examined for clinical efficacy using peer reviewed clinical trials with an economic impact evaluation
• Explain the benefits of personal wellness information and how will it interact with the electronic medical record?

See R. Felder’s Presentation Passive Home-Based Monitoring in an Era-of Telemedicine pdf

Listen to R Felder’s-Presentation-29-minutes mp3