This is a project for ESC Health Informatics Class which covers material relating to IS infrastructure & mobile healthcare (dated Feb 2012).

1. Mobile Transitions In Healthcare
ESC Healthcare Informatics
February 2012
Tracey McPherson

2. The climate of healthcare is changing…

3. Where we used to have to bring the
patient to the ‘doctor’…

4. Now we can bring the ‘doctor’
to the patient!

5. What an astounding concept!

6. How is this technology possible?!

7. Well, first of all, a number
of things changed…
• The way that we connect changed (cellular &
wireless technology).
• The speed at which we connect improved (the
speed at which data transfers exploded).
• The size of the hardware that we use to
connect shrank (PC devices became smaller).
• ‘Cloud Computing’ began to advance rapidly
(making small devices even more powerful).

8. The way that we used to connect was
restrictive & awkward…
Cables, cables and more cables! LQQK! No more cables!

9. When we connect today, the speed that
data transfers has increased dramatically!
Before 2000 … From 2000 to 2010 + …

10. When you need information, it is available on
your device faster than ever before!

11. The size of the devices that we connect
with has decreased dramatically!
1993 Hardware vs 2008 Hardware…

12. Finally… ‘Cloud Computing’, an extension of classic
client/server networking, makes these smaller, faster,
wireless devices that we use even more powerful!

13. With Cloud Computing, or even
classic client/server computing, …
• We can connect very small computer devices, wirelessly, to
much larger computers (servers) on the network.
• These small wireless devices now transfer information so
quickly from the larger computer, that it’s the same as if we
were logged on directly to the larger computer!
• Our smaller computers act almost only as a ‘looking glass’
into the larger computer (server).
• This means, there is virtually no limit to what can be
performed with the smaller computer device anymore!

14. As all of these things began to change, the
internet became a lot more useful and fun for
people…
And older concepts, like Healthcare Technology,
made more sense to implement!

15. The types of mobile healthcare devices
that we can connect are astounding!

16. Wireless Tablets Wireless Laptops
Wireless Smartphones Wireless body sensors

17. We can even use wireless sensors to monitor the
patient’s vital signs remotely!
Click Here To learn More About Wireless Body Networking!

18. Then, if we wanted to communicate live with the
patient, we could establish a telemedicine video link!

19. Most practitioners use a variety of
information to render a medical
diagnosis…
• Lab results (like blood work & biopsies)
• Vital signs
• Information gathered verbally
• Visual inspection

20. With today’s Mobile
Healthcare
Technology, all of
that information
can be made
available to the
practitioner
without the need to
actually physically
see the patient!

21. This has been a Tracey McPherson production!