* Larry: 1) reading Wade Peterson's document: Creation of Interoperable
Circuits using Clean Room Techniques, 2) developing a sample 510K
exercise submission as part of a course on Medical Quality Systems
and will share the results with us in May or June, 3) would like
to work on a "daily Sphygmochron" application for the
Halberg Chronology Center.
* Chris: developed several categories of scenarios of the Phoenix
Monitor requirements.
* Gerry Werth: using a recent publication of the State of Minnesota
Health Informatics, he and Gary Berasik are working on migrating
Sifert's "Health and Disease Questionaire" from a proprietary
system to an open website, as pilot project to build his team
for the open source Clinical Care Support System. Expects to
have progress to report on April 27, two meeting from now.
Chris introduced the phrase: "Activity of Daily Living"
in slide 14 as an alternative to "Wearable".
* Wearable
- Suitable for wear or able to be worn on the body
* Activity of daily living (ADL)
- the things a person normally does in daily living including
any daily activity performed for self-care (such as feeding, bathing,
dressing, grooming), work, homemaking, and leisure
- health professionals routinely refer to the ability or inability
to perform ADLs as a measurement of the functional status of a
person
- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_of_daily_living
He discussed the following 9 scenarios:
1. Internet-based individual health surveillance
2. Home-based self care
3. Clinical care
4. Self-care followed by clinical care
5. Public healthcare
6. Research
7. Sports training
8. Emergency medical service
9. Combat lifesaving
Germaine and Franz suggested that #8 Emergency Medical Service
was not a blood pressure chronobiology application but rather
post-event applications of continuous monitoring.
* Bob: Suggested three techniques that may increase our ability
to measure blood pressure with the peizofilm technique: using
1) "piezofilm as part of a chest band to sense blood pressure
in the aorta where the vibration is greatest, 2) larger sensors
rather than smaller sensors (i.e. six times larger in linear length
to capture perhaps 36 times more energy, and 3) measuring blood
pressure on female breasts that may be physically more responsive
to blood flow cycle within a blood pressure measurement.
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