Closing the Care Gap with Wearable Devices: Innovating Healthcare with Wearable Patient Monitoring

Patient-focused healthcare, driven by COVID-19 experiences, has become a hallmark for providing healthcare services to patients across all modalities of care and in the home. The ability to capture real-time patient data, no matter the location, via remote patient monitoring, and to transmit that data to providers and organizations approved by the consumer/patient, will become a critical capability for all healthcare providers. Of all the remote patient monitoring product designs, wearable medical devices are emerging as the best positioned to support the evolving patient-focused healthcare environment.

This book is for those who are evaluating, selecting, implementing, managing, or designing wearable devices to monitor the health of patients and consumers. This book will provide the knowledge to understand the issues that mitigate the risk of wearable technologies so people can deliver successful projects using these technologies. It will discuss their use in remote patient monitoring, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of physiological sensors, different wireless communication protocols, and different power sources. It will describe issues and solutions in cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance, as well as setting them up to be used in healthcare systems and by patients.

以患者為中心的醫療保健，受到COVID-19經驗的推動，已成為向患者提供各種護理模式和在家護理的標誌。通過遠程患者監測，無論在何處，捕獲實時患者數據並將該數據傳輸給經消費者/患者批准的提供者和組織，將成為所有醫療保健提供者的關鍵能力。在所有遠程患者監測產品設計中，可穿戴醫療設備正在成為最適合支持不斷發展的以患者為中心的醫療保健環境的位置最佳選擇。

本書針對那些正在評估、選擇、實施、管理或設計可穿戴設備來監測患者和消費者健康的人。本書將提供知識，以了解減輕可穿戴技術風險的問題，使人們能夠使用這些技術成功地進行項目交付。它將討論在遠程患者監測中的使用，不同類型的生理傳感器的優缺點，不同的無線通信協議和不同的電源。它將描述在網絡安全和HIPAA合規性方面的問題和解決方案，以及在醫療系統和患者使用中的設置。

Mike Davis
Mike has over 40 years of experience in healthcare and healthcare IT. He completed graduate degrees in clinical pathology and clinical research at the University of Nebraska, and in business administration at Pfeiffer University. Mike held executive management positions at Gartner, HIMSS Analytics, Advisory Board Company, and Mountain Summit Advisors. Mike has been an independent consultant since 2013 advising domestic and global companies on healthcare strategies and acquisitions.

Michael Kirwan
Michael Kirwan is Vice President of Certification and Standards, LoRa Alliance where he drives the intellectual curiosity of LoRa Alliance's certification and standards development. With over 25+ years of introspective experience driving international certification and open standards development, he has helped to lead several alliances to success, such as the Bluetooth SIG, Continua Health Alliance, PCHAlliance, HIMSS, IEEE and is now fully committed to doing the same for LoRa Alliance.

Professionally, he has worked daily with IoT technical, test & certification groups, regulatory, security, policy groups and thought leaders in open standards worldwide as a staff member, a chair and a devoted key stakeholder. Michael holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina, a BS in Industrial Engineering & Technology from Northwest Missouri State University, is PMP certified (Program Management Professional) and a recognized as a Bluetooth Qualification Consultant (BQC) and Continua Certified Expert (CCE) and aspires to be such an expert in LoRaWan in the coming years.

Walt Maclay
Mr. Walt Maclay, President and founder of Voler Systems, is committed to delivering quality electronic products on time and on budget. Voler Systems provides integrated design, development and risk assessment of new devices, and specializes in the design of wearable devices. He has lead Voler Systems to become one of the top electronic design firms in Silicon Valley. Voler Systems is especially well known for the design of sensor interfaces, wireless, motion control, and medical devices. The company has developed medical devices, wearable devices, home health products, and products for the aging.

Mr. Maclay is recognized as a domain expert in Silicon Valley technical consulting associations. He has spoken on sensors, wearable devices, wireless communication, and low power design. From 2008 to 2010 he was President of the Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA). He is a senior life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Consultants Network of Silicon Valley. He has been an instructor at Foothill College in the Product Realization Certificate Program, teaching successful new product introduction skills. He has applied his outstanding leadership to many multidisciplinary teams that have delivered quality electronic devices. Mr. Maclay holds a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.

Mr. Maclay is active in helping technology startup companies. He has participated in angel investor groups and has advised dozens of startup companies on technical and funding issues. He has mentored startups at Techstars and Cleantech Open. He is a reviewer for NSF SBIR grants. As founder of his own company, he has dealt with issues of funding, product development, marketing, sales, and finance, giving him the experience to advise others. Voler Systems is a member of a technology consortium, the Product Realization Group, which provides all the services to introduce new technology products. Mr. Maclay started and led two forums for CEOs of small companies to discuss issues of importance to them.

Harry P. Pappas
Pappas is a successful, High Tech., Serial entrepreneur with a strong focus on the health technology sector. He is a strong believer in applying technology to transform the health and wellness community in today's "Continuum of care", from the hospital, to the primary care giver, and to the patient's Smart Home. Pappas firmly believes that the world of digital health is being driven by the adoption of technology and therefore the need for Quality, ON-GOING education.

Harry is a global, thought leader and has been a tech geek since the age of 12. He is a speaker at many Health and Wellness conferences and trade shows around the world. He and his team are the producers of the award winning "Intelligent Health Pavilion (TM) " a technology centric, DIGITAL HOSPITAL, that you may have visited at many trade shows around the world, including at HIMSS over the last TEN years.

Pappas is the Founder & CEO of the Intelligent Health Association, a global, Social Purpose, educational, technology centric organization dedicated to helping educate members of the Healthcare community on the adoption of new technologies, new software, smart drugs, apply digital therapeutics and APPS that can improve patient care, patient outcomes, and patient safety, while driving down the cost of Healthcare.

Harry is also the creator of the ( i-HOME (TM)), an "In Context" concept that demonstrates, a plethora of health and wellness technologies placed in a Digital Smart Home setting. Harry was developing the concept of the "Smart Home" utilizing Steve Jobs, original Apple "NEWTON" PDA device many years ago.
He is clearly an "out of the box thinker" and a long-term strategic player in the world of health technologies for the Digital hospital and for today's Smart Home.
Harry is unique in that he has "hands-on" experience with a wide variety of technology and software development projects as they relate to the health and wellness industries. He has been ahead of the technology curve most of his life and was developing data driven, e-commerce web sites back in 1994.
Harry is an internationally recognized thought leader with auto-ID, BLE, NFC, RFID, RTLS, Sensors, Voice, Robotics, and Wireless technologies. He has been presenting educational programs around the world since 2001.

Mike Davis
Mike Davis擁有超過40年的醫療保健和醫療IT經驗。他在內布拉斯加大學完成了臨床病理學和臨床研究的研究生學位，並在Pfeiffer大學獲得了工商管理碩士學位。Mike曾在Gartner、HIMSS Analytics、Advisory Board Company和Mountain Summit Advisors擔任高級管理職位。自2013年以來，Mike一直是一名獨立顧問，為國內和全球公司提供醫療策略和收購方面的建議。

Michael Kirwan
Michael Kirwan是LoRa Alliance的認證和標準副總裁，他推動了LoRa Alliance的認證和標準開發的智慧好奇心。憑藉超過25年的內省經驗，他推動了國際認證和開放標準的發展，並幫助多個聯盟取得成功，如藍牙SIG、Continua Health Alliance、PCHAlliance、HIMSS、IEEE，現在他全力以赴為LoRa Alliance做同樣的事情。

在專業方面，他作為一名員工、主席和忠實的關鍵利益相關者，每天與物聯網技術、測試和認證團體、監管、安全、政策團體和全球開放標準的思想領袖一起工作。Michael擁有北卡羅來納大學的工商管理碩士學位，西北密蘇里州立大學的工業工程與技術學士學位，持有PMP認證（項目管理專業人員），並被譽為藍牙資格顧問（BQC）和Continua認證專家（CCE），並希望在未來幾年成為LoRaWan的專家。

Walt Maclay
Walt Maclay先生是Voler Systems的總裁和創始人，致力於按時按預算交付優質的電子產品。Voler Systems提供新設備的集成設計、開發和風險評估，專門設計可穿戴設備。他帶領Voler Systems成為矽谷頂尖的電子設計公司之一。Voler Systems尤其以傳感器接口、無線、運動控制和醫療設備的設計而聞名。該公司開發了醫療設備、可穿戴設備、家庭健康產品和老年人產品。

Maclay先生在矽谷技術咨詢協會中被認可為領域專家。他曾就傳感器、可穿戴設備、無線通信和低功耗設計發表演講。從2008年到2010年，他擔任專業和技術顧問協會（PATCA）的主席。他是美國電氣和電子工程師學會（IEEE）的高級終身會員，也是矽谷顧問網絡的成員。他曾在Foothill College的產品實現證書課程中擔任講師，教授成功的新產品引入技能。他在許多跨學科團隊中展現出優秀的領導能力，交付了優質的電子設備。Maclay先生擁有紐約州立大學電氣工程學士學位。

Maclay先生積極幫助科技初創公司。他參與了天使投資者團體，並就技術和資金問題為數十家初創公司提供了建議。他在Techstars和Cleantech Open指導初創公司。他是NSF SBIR資助項目的評審人。作為自己公司的創始人，他處理了資金、產品開發、市場營銷、銷售和財務等問題，使他有能力為他人提供建議。Voler Systems是一個技術聯盟的成員，名為產品實現集團，提供引入新技術產品的所有服務。Maclay先生創辦並領導了兩個小公司CEO的論壇，討論對他們重要的問題。

Harry P. Pappas
Pappas是一位成功的高科技連續創業家，對健康技術領域有著強烈的關注。他堅信應用技術來改變當今的健康和健康社區。