Big Idea 1 - Feedback

[jrosenfeld13]

Gist: A health monitoring system to track various parameters of senior adults in independent living environments. The system can automatically alert medical personnel of any conditions needing attention, thereby improving health, reducing costs, and giving families peace of mind.

What should be kept:

• You mention implications about privacy (i.e. the senior needs to agree to wear the monitor 24/7 and having to comply with HIPAA)--I think you can expand a bit more on that, though.

What should be cut:

• I think every piece adds to the write-up, nothing that I can think of cutting.

Other feedback:

• Does a facility and the senior need to agree to the system or just the senior?
• How are false positives minimized?
• Who runs the call center and who owns the servers where the data is stored?
• I like the headers for each section

[mattprout]

• You mention implications about privacy (i.e. the senior needs to agree to wear the monitor 24/7 and having to comply with HIPAA)--I think you can expand a bit more on that, though. [MP] Users would need to agree to have the service use and disclose protected health information (PHI) to health care providers. The service would need to follow the key elements of HIPAA when processing PHI.

• Does a facility and the senior need to agree to the system or just the senior? [MP] I was thinking that the facility would support the system, and the senior can choose to subscribe to the service if they wish.

• How are false positives minimized? [MP] This is a good question, as parameters (such as heart rate) can change for normal behaviors. The right balance between sensitivity and specificity will need to be found, possibly erring on the side of false positives, as the call center can contact the senior to find out if they are OK.

• Who runs the call center and who owns the servers where the data is stored? [MP] The service would run the call center. The user’s agreement would allow the patient’s PHI to be disclosed to the call center. The data would be stored in cloud storage that complies with HIPAA regulations.