The new virtual caregiver from technology developer Electronic Caregiver interacts with people through voice and patient touch via the Lenovo IdeaCentre All-in-One computer or the Yoga convertible tablet. The new approach to remote patient monitoring could greatly benefit the elderly who are aging in situ.
WHY IT IMPORTANTS
For patients with complex medication regimens, routine physical therapy, or daily vitals monitoring programs, a 3D virtual care assistant can deliver on-demand healthcare services. . The new RPM assistant, called Addison, aims to do just that.
“Addison provides a dynamic, ever-changing, emotionally stimulating, personalized experience for users. Addison can educate, illustrate, learn and connect,” said Anthony Dohrmann, CEO of Addison. Las Cruces, the New Mexico-based e-care company, said in a statement.
According to the company, people with impaired vision or unsteady hands struggle with small buttons and screens and can become overwhelmed or lose interest. Addison can be personalized by language, gender, ethnicity, decoration, location, tone, color, clothing and language. Users can interact with objects, animals, musical instruments and media in the virtual care system.
“You know [Addison’s] Coralee Armstrong, 82, an Addison Care customer who lives in Greenville, Pennsylvania, said in a statement. House. It’s like a company.”
The company says the HIPAA-compliant system can help patients avoid skyrocketing costs of assisted living and home care, and help address caregiver shortages. It claims virtual carers provide better care and supervision coordination.
The Addison Care system, running on AWS and Intel, can:
- Remind users to take prescribed medication.
- Conduct interactive health assessments.
- Provide dose compliance verification for caregivers and providers.
- Assist patients in recording vital sign measurements when monitoring specific conditions.
- Provides additional support for managing behavioral health conditions.
- Connect with emergency services, carers, family and friends.
The system can also be paired with various Bluetooth devices, such as blood glucose meters for diabetics or scales and blood pressure cuffs for patients with or under control of heart disease.
The company also said that mental and physical wellness routines and video telemedicine capabilities are under development. It asserts that technology will evolve to provide third-party service integrations for needs such as grocery delivery, ride sharing and connected home solutions.
TREND TO BIGGER
Electronic carers launched the Addison virtual carer system at HIMSS22.
The system can automatically reflect a client’s light and weather as it guides the patient through the steps of recording vital signs and then sharing that information in real time with caregivers and providers. specified supplier.
The need for remote patient monitoring increases rapidly during the pandemic as it helps service providers treat chronic diseases and eases hospital overload.
Sarah Carroll, senior director of the Center for Care Transformation at AVIA, a healthcare digital transformation technology and services company, says healthcare systems are looking to RPM to deliver provide more robust, timely, and cost-effective care.
“In the next 10 years, there will be more older people than children. And among this aging population, 2 out of 5 adults have 3 or more chronic diseases. Older people want to avoid nursing homes. it’s expensive and will need help to live independently,” said Carroll Healthcare IT News in June 2022.
ON PROFILE
“Addison is the most transformative and engaging interface for human interaction with technology ever created,” Dohrmann said in the announcement.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS.
