Your doctors fall out of the information channel when you are doing out-patient therapy because they know absolutely nothing about stroke rehab. As proven by the prescriptions they write, ET - Evaluate and Treat. The first problem your doctor has to solve is an objective diagnosis of your damage; dead areas and penumbra or bleed area. This whole analysis is a joke, it has to be, no connection with reality.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-analytics-may-improve-stroke-patients-quality-of-healthcare/
Strokes are the second leading cause of death globally. Over 75% of patients survive a first stroke during the first year,
and over half survive a first stroke beyond five years. Stroke
survivors have a greater chance(Not Results!) of regaining lost function than ever
before, especially if they are treated within the first six hours of the
occurrence of a stroke. (Really! tPA only fully works 12% of the time)
After the initial effects of stroke are
treated, the normal course of action is stroke victims are rehabilitated
and attended to by physicians specializing in neurological disorders.
Stroke victims return home after a rehabilitation period, where they
continue on a regimen of medication and therapy.
SEE: Big Data Policy (Tech Pro Research)
Unfortunately,
the information channels often break down once patients are back home.
For instance, a patient might be connected to care providers and
therapists whom they see at home, but the vital link between the patient
and doctors is lost except for periodic visits. This disconnect can be
result in a lack of effective continuous care and improvement results.
"The
problem is that patients get their home visits from speech and language
pathologists, but their doctors fall out of this ongoing process," said
Veera Acanthi, co-founder and president of Constant Therapy,
which provides neurological exercises and feedback systems delivered on
mobile devices like iPads. "We enable continuous communications between
patients and doctors with the help of mobile technology."
The goal with such
technology is to forward the patient's analytics from their home to
their doctors so the physicians can get in the loop quicker. If there is
a need to alter therapy, doctors have the visibility to be able to
respond immediately.
"Clinics are used to using paper-based tools
like flashcards and workbooks to see how well patients' cognitive
abilities are improving," said Acanthi. "They don't have objective
measures of progress in place like, 'Did the patient have to be given a
cue to get an answer? Or, did the patient have to try four or five times
before he got an answer right? When we use digital tools like an iPad
to perform the tests and to evaluate the results, the data can be
transmitted immediately to the physician, who can then respond to the
situation."
This is not a premier data analytics solution requiring large corporate investments into expensive data scientists and Hadoop
databases; rather, it is the kind of ground level, common-sense
analytics that are driven by very specific business cases and that can
be highly effective in the right types of situations—like improving the
long-term recovery and quality of life prospects for stroke patients and
others with neurological disorders.
"With this digital,
self-reporting technology, the missing communications dots between the
doctors and their patients can be reconnected on a more continuous
basis," said Acanthi. "Many doctors whom we've spoken with welcome this,
because they can be in a position where they can continuously monitor
how their patients are doing, and they can also make immediate moves to
change treatment or care when they see a need(What the hell treatment would they possibly suggest? They know nothing.). Traditionally, continuous
monitoring by physicians of patients in home settings, and the
continuous application of therapy adjustments to patients once they were
recovering at home, wasn't thought of. Now we have a more holistic
approach to treatment that is available and that can tie into what
studies already tell us: that persons with severe neurological
impairment are more likely to benefit from more therapy—but to prescribe
the right kind of therapy, you have to be able to see the need for it
when that need first arises."
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