2016 Infokes Sesi 9 SS Telehealth eHealth and mHealth

Telehealth, eHealth and
mHealth
Surahyo Sumarsono, B.Eng.,
M.Eng.Sc.
Sistem Informasi Manajemen Kesehatan
Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Gadjah Mada
surahyo.sumarsono@ugm.ac.id

The Taxonomy
“In the history of telemedicine, various definitions have been
published and numerous terminologies have been coined. The
introduction of new technologies played an important role in the
changing definitions. After four decades of experience in telemedicine
and its variations, the need for a single taxonomy that is detailed
enough to define all the terms introduced until today is evident…..” B.
Tulu, S. Chatterjee, and S. Laxminarayan, 2005

Overlapping concept

Definitions
• eHealth (WHO 2005)

– “the use of information and communication technologies (ICT)
for health. Examples include treating patients, conducting
research, educating the health workforce, tracking diseases and
monitoring public health”

• Telehealth (various sources)
– eHealth conducted by two or more points separated by distance

• mHealth (various sources)
– The integration of mobile technology, computing devices, and
emerging delivery system capabilities into a patient-centered
model of care.”

Telemedicine
• Subset of telehealth practiced by medical professionals
• “the use of medical information exchanged from one
site to another via electronic communications to
improve a patient’s clinical health status” (American
Telemedicine Association)
• “the practice of medicine over a distance, in which

interventions, diagnostics and treatment decisions and
recommendations are based on data, including voice
and images, documents and other information
transmitted through telecommunication systems”
(World Medical Association)

eHealth in Indonesia

Telemedicine Pilot Projects in
Indonesia

Challenges in Indonesia
- the simultaneously high prevalence of both chronic
degenerative and acute communicable diseases
- the limited number of and access to healthcare
professionals
- further accompanied by the typical limitation in the
telecommunication infrastructure

Telemedicine Level Adoption – HIMSS

2015

Telemedicine Roadmap in
Indonesia

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Pervasive
Healthcare
the application of pervasive computing technologies in healthcare to
facilitate the delivery of healthcare service anywhere, anytime and to
anyone
include monitoring of bodily signals, their transfer through
communication networks (wireless or cellular) and immediate healthcare
response or advice received by the user
The key enabling technology of pervasive healthcare is a networkconnected sensor system:
- sophisticated dedicated sensors, such as wearable or
environmental sensors
- simpler smartphone-based sensors
- even simpler smartphone-based applications accepting manual

input from offline sensors

Categories of Pervasive Healthcare
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The wellness category focuses on providing the users with healthy lifestyle
advice and encouragement to exercise while promoting the respective health
benefits.
The risk management and prevention category offers tailored health
advice to an at-risk population based on routine monitoring of generic bodily
signals, such as body weight, blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, etc.
The chronic disease management applications cater to a specific patient
category (e.g. hypertension, diabetes, asthma) and their clinical care
providers by facilitating continuous monitoring of specific physiological
indicators (e.g. blood pressure, blood glucose, electrocardiogram, heart pulse)
as a part of the disease management.

Categories of Pervasive Healthcare
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The acute disease management category offers the clinical care provider
with the possibility to monitor their patients during the relevant time course of
the disease regardless of their location, assuring timely receipt of relevant
information immediately after the onset of the disease.
The assisted living category supports elderly and/or disabled people so that
they can live safely and independently by transmitting user-activated and/or
automated alert signals to the relevant healthcare professionals and family
members should an emergency event occur

What is mHealth?


There is not a consensus on what mHealth is.



Questions to Consider:
1) What kind of connection does it have to have?


Broadband? Wifi? Wired Internet?
2) What technology does it include?

Cell phones? PDAs? Devices? Computers?
3) What’s the application?

Clinical Data? Community Health? Personal
Health?
4) What’s it part of?

Telehealth? eHealth?
http://vimeo.com/17125591

What is mHealth?


All the definitions focus on mobile communications and healthcare.




Broader definitions seem to be gaining more steam.

“The integration of mobile technology, computing devices, and emerging delivery
system capabilities into a patient-centered model of care.”
– Indian Health Service
US Department of Health and Human Services

mHealth Applications

Personal

Public

Population

Applications: Management
• Patient-centered personal health management.
• Patient or care-giver driven.
• Typically includes a device or smartphone application.

• PHR and EHR integration is possible.
• Particularly beneficial for conditions where continual
tracking is warranted:
•Diabetes
•Asthma/COPD
•CHF
•Aging in Place
•Medication Adherence

Applications: Promotion


Educational messages targeted at behavior modification.



Third Party driven (public health depts, governments,
insurance companies)




Usually utilizes cell phone messaging because it’s quick,
easy, and cheap.



May be one way or two way messaging.



Particularly beneficial for chronic.





Smoking Cessation
Sexual Health
Pregnancy
Depression


Applications: Surveillance


Allows people to design forms for data collection on the
internet.



Data is entered into the forms using either a smart phone
application or SMS messaging.



Allows for real-time data uploads and analysis.



Been used to evaluate:
 anti-malarial bednet distribution and vaccination

campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa
 clean water initiatives in Vietnam
 drug supplies in several African countries
 health delivery systems in Guatemala
* 2011 World Bank Report:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAC/Resources/257803-1269390034020/EnBreve_166_Web.pdf

"drastically cut costs
while facilitating quality
control and improving
implementation speed.“
- The World Bank

mHealth in
General



Current trends show that the utilization of mHealth will increase.



Its applications are numerous and widely encompassing:


Management: Connecting mHealth applications with traditional health IT systems
will provide a groundbreaking continuum of personal care, particularly for those with
chronic conditions, keeping them out of hospitals.



Promotion: Wide scale education and behavior modification will improve the health
of the public due to its ability to be anywhere the person is at anytime.



Surveillance: Real-time health tracking and data aggregation leads to actionable
information for preventing disease outbreaks and improving population health.
Source:
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/mhealth-apps-forecast-increase-threefold-2012-0

mHealth in Indonesia
mHealth allows communication over a wide range of
complexity :
-very simple communication such as exchanging information
via SMS or email
-more advanced systems that enable access to personal
medical data
-even the most advanced systems that use an embedded
sensor in a smartphone to sense aspects of health or
disease status

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