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Cellular / Mobile phones are indeed a boon of technology to villages, rural locations, hilly terrains in most of the countries these days, in some countries, the per-capita ratio of mobile phones has indeed gone pretty high than one could have imagined, Our GLOBAL GREEN MINI CLINICS come with an offer to implement CELLULAR PHONE BASED TELE-MEDICINE, where internet connectivity would not be possible, or even if one would wish to have it additionally as a resource with the nurse at the clinic to equip themselves for visiting old, disabled, pregnant or very sick patients.
Mobile phones are used heavily throughout the world, even in remote villages, rural communities, hilly terrains, and other hard-to-reach areas. Even very poor people have basic phones and cell service. Hence, a mobile phone-powered telemedicine and patient management system taps into existing telecommunications infrastructure, draws upon widespread familiarity with the phones and there is no extra requirement of any type of electricity practically.
Our GLOBAL GREEN MINI CLINICS offer MOBILE PHONE-POWERED TELE-MEDICINE SYSTEM for people living at the bottom of the healthcare pyramid and where because of poor communication and internet connectivity then the mobile phone powered systems works good, specifically when
Clinics do not foresee to get Internet connectivity in near future also
Clinics, without right systems and do not have electronic health record (EHR) system
Clinics extending care with home-visit nurses or health workers for old, disabled, pregnant or very sick patients
Clinics equipped with Internet and computers needing additional mobility to deliver care while moving around in the clinic or outside of the clinic
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We offer these systems through partnership with one of the most innovative mobile telemedicine companies in the world, ClickMedix, which has designed the system with faculty members and graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
ClickMedix MOBILE PHONE POWERED TELE-MEDICINE SYSTEM allows clinic staff to:
1) Manage patient care through an electronic medical record system that can be used through mobile phones alone or in concert with Internet connected computers
2) Draw upon leading medical experts through tele-consultation by following structured, medical protocols to gather information necessary for remote diagnosis and treatment advice
3) Collect ongoing health updates to manage chronic diseases, to treat infectious diseases and to alert public health authorities of emerging epidemics and epidemiology risks
4) Obtain healthcare training from remote medical education organizations
These four factors work together to improve patient health outcomes with no additional resources. In addition to improved health outcomes GLOBAL GREEN MINI CLINICS have a net positive effect on the environment by eliminating unnecessary, and medically ruinous, travel.
ClickMedix Tele-Medicine Solution Features
Easy-to-Use: ClickMedix is designed to be used by anyone with basic literacy as it only requires ability to read on-screen instructions. Time to train a new user is less than an hour and the training can be done remotely or through a training manual.
Fast set-up time: ClickMedix tele-medicine solution can be set up within a few minutes. Users only need to download the mobile application once and enter authentication credentials when beginning to send and view tele-consultation requests.
Minimal communication infrastructure required: ClickMedix requires either mobile connectivity or Internet connectivity for tele-consultation. However, data collection can be done with no Internet or mobile connectivity on-site as long as the user can reach mobile/Internet connectivity at a later time. The transmission technology is engineered to withstand intermittent and/or weak data connectivity even for large patient case uploads with up to 20 images.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Included: ClickMedix works as a simple but complete electronic health record system that can be accessed via a mobile smart phone or a web browser.
Mobile and Web Solution: ClickMedix can be used via a mobile smart phone or a web browser. Authentication credentials are the same whether using the mobile application or the web.
Customizable workflow: The architecture and design enable the application workflow to be tailored to fit particular workflows of health facilities and user groups.
Customizable reports: Data analysis draws on up to the minute data and can be tailored into generate needed reports.
Integrates into other health IT systems: The system is designed so its processes and data can be integrated into existing IT health systems.
Secure data processing: The ClickMedix system is HIPAA compliant ensuring all data are kept and processed securely. All patient data are encrypted right on the phone, provided a second layer of encryption for transmission and remain encrypted post-transmission in both processing via the web server and in storage.
Benefits to Patients
Expedited (days versus months) for tele-consultation
Early detection and treatment planning of serious ailments with expert consultation
Consolidates specialist and primary visit into one visit
Facilitates referral appointment scheduling with remote doctors
Benefits to Health Providers
Extends rural clinic to comprehensive primary care facility and specialist facility
Improved patient quality of care and experience (less wait time, better diagnosis, convenience)
Lowers total cost of care provision through early detection
Facilitates clinic staff recognition of common specialty area ailments
Minimizes referral backlog at secondary or tertiary health facilities
Usage Scenarios "A"
Rural Health Facility with no Internet connectivity and weak or intermittent mobile service
No sufficiently trained medical doctor on-site except for a few nurses and health workers
No communications with external health support
Nurses at Green Mini Clinics have the appropriate ClickMedix app installed on their mobile phones. ClickMedix allows for collection of structured primary healthcare data in its EHR.
1. Problem Encountered and Documented: If health worker encounters a health concern needing external medical help. he/she folows ClickMedix on-screen instructions to enter patient health symptoms, including images of symptoms, & requests for treatment advice from remote doctors in secondary hospitals.
2. Consultation Request: A phone, already owned by the health worker, is used to immediately transmit a tele-consultation request.
3. Expert Consultation: Notified by email or text that a tele- consultation request has been received, a doctor from a related a secondary hospital responds with written treatment advice by phone or web portal.
4. Advice Received and Applied: The health worker receives the treatment advice on the phone via ClickMedix and administers the recommended treatment.
5. Documentation and Feedback: The health worker documents the treatment and describes the outcome using the ClickMedix app on the phone. This uploads the information into the patients Electronic Health Record that is available by phone or computer.
6. Final Review: Doctor receives and reviews outcome description and advises follow-up care as needed.
Usage Scenario "B"
Rural Community with Infectious Disease Outbreak:-
No ability to identify infection diseases
No supply for infectious disease treatment
1. Business as Usual: Health workers at Green Mini Clinics continue to update patient information via ClickMedix EHR.
2. Identification of Public Health Risk: ClickMedix report shows a significant increase in occurrence of heavy coughing in the population and notifies remote doctors from secondary hospital of such trend.
3. Expert Intervention: Remote doctors use ClickMedix via a web browser to notify health workers to conduct tuberculosis (TB) screening along with instructions to conduct the screening and how to identifying patients who need to visit a secondary hospital.
4. Instructions Received and Applied: Health workers receive the instructions on their phones via ClickMedix and follow the instructions to screen for TB.
5. Detailed Report: ClickMedix notifies remote doctors of the number of patients suspected for TB.
6. Rapid, Targeted Response: Remote doctors prepare to transport necessary treatment supplies and send instructions to health workers to monitor patient adherence to treatment.
7. Communications Loop Established: Health workers use ClickMedix to send daily updates on patient adherence to treatment.
8. Positive Putcome: TB infection is kept under control, treatment supplies arrived in time, and all infected patients are adhering to treatment plan.
ClickMedix specializes in connecting health practitioners, patients, and medical specialists to provide expedited, high-quality healthcare through the integration of mobile and Internet technologies. The products and services offered by ClickMedix includes:
1) Project medical expertise into populations that, here-to-fore, have been under-served, if served at all, and
2) Bring significantly improved efficiency and quality to the delivery of healthcare.
World Health Organization, has included these in their Compendium of new and emerging health technologies that address Global Health Concerns 2011
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