Deans' stroke musings: Cerner tool said to triple accuracy of fall-risk assessment

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Cerner tool said to triple accuracy of fall-risk assessment

I bet this would not be accurate for stroke survivors because it wouldn't be monitoring drop foot.
http://medcitynews.com/2015/07/cerner-tool-said-to-triple-accuracy-of-fall-risk-assessment/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=71cc50d6e8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-71cc50d6e8-67013357
Health IT giant Cerner is best known for electronic health records, but it has other divisions. Notably, the Kansas City, Mo.-based company has been selling medical devices for more than a decade.
The latest offering from Cerner is a small device that the vendor said can triple the accuracy of fall-risk assessment and brings testing, historically the purview of academic medical centers, to community hospitals and ambulatory clinics.
This device, which is priced at about $100 — far less than traditional kinesiology measurement tools — is worn on a belt around the waist as the patient walks. A 10-minute assessment can identify patients at high risk of falling with 90 percent accuracy, thanks to a Cerner-developed algorithm, according to the company.
Cerner has tested the system with about 130 patients in the Kansas City area, according to Doug McNair, president of algorithmic division Cerner Math.
Other fall assessments, which are based on questionnaires, are only able to identify 30 percent of patients who later have a fall, Cerner claimed. This yet-unnamed product, the size of a pack of gum, represents about 10 years of work in algorithm development.
“We are focused on integrating data and creating innovations that will help providers deliver the best care. In this case, we can also address a considerable public health issue,” Doug McNair, president of algorithmic division Cerner Math, said in an e-mail to MedCity News.
Cerner said the technology is “EHR-agnostic” because it runs on the vendor’s CareAware iBus connector, which functions much like a USB port for medical devices. “This interoperable tool is an example of patient-centric innovation that’s meant to improve the health of individuals, regardless of EHR,” McNair said.
McNair added that Cerner is in “launch planning discussions” with MedStar Health in the Baltimore/Washington area, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va., and NCH Healthcare System in Naples, Fla.