Intel has announced the launch of the Intel Health Application Platform (Intel HAP), an innovative application software platform for use by providers of remote care solutions (modalities of care outside the clinical environment), enabling new options for use in healthcare . The arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought numerous benefits to the industry, and remote care is one of the biggest advances in modernizing healthcare. Managing remote care for patients with serious or chronic conditions helps reduce hospital admissions by up to 40% and readmission rates by 75%, lowering costs for industry employers – in the US, savings can be up to US$ 6 billion a year.
Despite the proven potential, the adoption of remote care still faces challenges. Today, for example, patients can check their blood pressure or glucose level at home, with the help of smartphones or tablets, and send the results to their doctors for periodic evaluation. Although convenient for patients, these devices, even connected ones, can become unstable or unreliable with each update of their operating systems or applications. In addition, healthcare professionals grapple with a variety of incompatible technologies, stringent regulatory guidelines, and data security and privacy issues, not to mention pressure to reduce costs.
Intel HAP addresses these critical issues for the adoption of remote care, enabling healthcare solution providers to deliver a wide range of services securely, always connected, constantly expanding and to any cloud.
To make the Intel HAP platform available, Intel collaborated with Flex – Sketch-to-Scale™, which designs and builds smart products for a connected world, to create an IoT computing engine that delivers a smart, connected device with connectivity. wireless for verified peripherals such as blood pressure monitors, glucose monitors, pulse oximeters and scales, among others. This innovative solution will enable healthcare solution providers to deliver remote solutions capable of transforming the market.
Solutions based on the IoT computing engine are ready to use as soon as they are set up by the provider and just connected by the patient or their family members to start working. The interactive and intuitive interface automatically displays a prompt to let users know when the battery needs charging, and a bright light on the device confirms that data is being transmitted securely, allowing for hands-free use. Additionally, hospitals will be able to retain ownership of data that can be stored and accessed within their current infrastructure and following their own local compliance processes.
Intel is developing a range of healthcare projects, from IoT-ready devices to the data center and cloud. By focusing on better data management and use, the company helps this industry improve the cost, quality and access to treatments, enabling more personal, distributed and collaborative care. Perhaps the healthcare industry, like no other, can benefit from a better use of data to address challenges such as an aging population, rising costs, a lack of infrastructure upgrades, and the existence of incompatible technologies and protocols. Intel can help this market overcome these challenges by not only providing data expertise, but also being a catalyst for better solutions, policies and standards development.
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