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CollaboRhythm - Redefining the doctor-patient relationship
The doctor-patient relationship is deteriorating. And today’s information technology solutions are exacerbating the problem. They perpetuate paternalistic decision-making and episodic care, and they fail to assist doctors in making persuasive arguments to their patients.
CollaboRhythm is a technological framework that encourages new paradigms in doctor-patient interaction to improve health outcomes and the patient experience. It uses ubiquitous connectivity, collaborative decision-making, and compelling interfaces and visualizations to educate patients, improve treatment adherence, and deliver care at any point in time or space with seamless transitions.
The foundation of CollaboRhythm is a speech- and touch-controlled collaborative interface for the office where doctor and patient make shared decisions. Patients can actively engage with their data, so they can take action in their lives with doctors serving as coaches rather than commanders.
Patients own their data in CollaboRhythm: everything they see in the doctor’s office is available at home, or when they visit another doctor, or change jobs, or move across the world. Just as importantly, patients can contribute data of their own, things that doctors fail to see in the face of too many lab tests: data and perceptions about social support, diet, alternative therapies, and their effect on the patient’s quality of life. (Patients and physicians disagree on the reason for an office visit nearly 50% of the time.)
Although the hub of CollaboRhythm is located in the doctor’s office, the system’s goal is to connect with the patient from any place at any time. However, it isn’t a tele-presence system – which beams the doctor into the patient’s life – but a system for tele-collaboration. Patients need support from their health-care providers, and doctors need to encourage patients to actively track their performance in collaboration with providers. No more letting patients fall through the cracks between visits every six months.
Working together, CollaboRhythm’s components bring the promise of ubiquitous connectivity to primary care. For example, in the near future, the doctor may be able to push out medication reminders to the patient’s bathroom mirror or television. The patient can interact with an intelligent conversational agent before doctor visits to prepare. The doctor can send the patients visualizations of their progress in fighting disease, providing detail on a microscopic level in a form that’s understandable and actionable by the patient.
Patients of the future will know more about their health than their doctors. They have to. By making patients active, informed participants in their own care, we believe we can reduce health care costs, increase quality, and improve health outcomes.
Source : New Media Medicine at MIT Media Lab
I know this is gonna happen in future. I am looking forward for these technologies to change the doctor-patient relationship.
What do you think?
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Permalink Reply by Dindukurthi Sudhakar on -
I think it is for common good.
But compliance at the basic level is wanting in so many instances. That won't change.
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Permalink Reply by Roshani Kandel on -
Hi doc,
I don know much about collaborhythm n so...but as far as I have seen and noticed, I have found that doctor patient relationship is detoriating coz of social stigma....I mean more over doctors think that they are just allocated for the prescription and givin'orders...rather they don beleive that if they give thier 2 min. each to their patients to talk nicely, then 10-50% of the disease will automatically heals.....anyway we gotta think positive about this and try to remove "I am God" type thinking from mind...then something may happen in relationship.....if you respect each individual of this world either s/he is begger or doctor!!...just a opinion, waiting for comments on this.
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Permalink Reply by Dindukurthi Sudhakar on
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Roshani, you have a good attitude. But, once you come to start practising your profession, you will have a different picture.
Not all will take the doctor's bonhomie in the right way. There are some who exploit and some who think the doc is impertinent. It is difficult to judge who will take in what way.
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Permalink Reply by Roshani Kandel on
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ya agree with you:) by point is let just not have ego..rather we can work collaborately in a multidiciplinary team taking opnions from all members but ofcourse, at last doc. can decide!!
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Permalink Reply by shelly sharma on -
Doctor pt. relationship is deteriorating,absolutely true.aim of care should be comprehensive and family centered.(i dnt much about collaborhythm).we should be more empathatic towards pt.advancement in technologies has made the pts aware of the disease and complications,which is great to improve the expected outcome.
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Permalink Reply by raj shekar on -
One thing we can say about collaborhythm is WOW!!!!Its very nice to see the new applications finally.... it will be more beneficial to patient as he/she has the access to the doctor all the time....and they even can have access to the best of physicians around the world.....sitting at home!!!! It also seems like there is very huge amount of scope for doctors too......
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Permalink Reply by Othman Latif on -
I would agree to what you have said. It is the future and it is better.
I don't know whether people here know about the developments in EMR Adoption Model or PHR or not as this post is quite old. But I would refer to a study which explains the scope of technology in mediacl field and the future of IT in medical field. The framework you are talking about is definitely one step further in advancements in health sector but there is a lot of work to be done yet.
According to the study, there are a total 754 acute care hospitals that have not fully implemented a base of major clinical ancillary department applications (e.g., laboratory, pharmacy, radiology) to qualify for initial designation for implementation of EMR Adoption Model. This represents approximately 19 percent of the hospitals in the database. Most hospitals occupy the stage 1 and stage 2 levels of the EMR Adoption Model. The combined percentage of hospitals in these two stages is approximately 71 percent.
At this time, there are only 414 US hospitals that are at the middle stage of the EMR Adoption Model. This shows the tremendous amount of work and investment that must be done by US hospitals to implement clinical systems to enable their participation in EHR initiatives. More importantly, further implementation of higher stage EMR applications will enable the reduction or elimination of medical errors, while providing the digital environment . The higher stages of the model represent the facilitation of not only improved patient care, but also improvements in efficiency and effectiveness with which patient care services are delivered by clinicians.
Once the health-care organizations are provided these capabilities, the focus can be shifted on sharing patient care information among all of the health-care stakeholders. Currently, the hype surrounding health-care IT has the 'cart before the horse.' How can we discuss of EHRs, much less implement them, until we have implemented effective EMRs, no hospitals, but in all care delivery organizations including physician practices?
I am associated with Global Patient Record (GPR) and we are also trying to help promote the awareness among the people about EMRs and PHRs. GPR has been providing solutions to improve patient care for over a decade now. The philosophy is to lower the medical liability and costs associated with patient follow-up and to increase the cooperation between patient and the provider through technology. It offers the GlobalPatientRecord keep you (the patient) notified and informed as well as responsible for your health record.
The mission is to help the patient to play an active role in managing one's own patient record, Make better decisions when it comes time to have a health related checkup, be informed when the medical results are available, be notified when one's health provider is trying to reach one, identify areas of potential health risk and provide solutions to prevent missed patient follow-up, improve communication between the patient and the healthcare providers, has access to accurate patient information instantaneously whenever needed.
The future you are talking about seems far but it is definitely gonna happen one day. :)
Othman Latif
Global Patient Record : Track your health & patient record.
