Students: Bruno Lopes
Faculty Advisor or Community Project Lead: Dr. Adriano Cavalcanti
Summary:
The target of this project is to provide health providers with a secure tool that enables direct interaction with clients independent of a centralized institutional infrastructure. The proposed prototype implements a peer-to-peer environment where in addition to real time sessions providers are able to remotely access biometric sensorial data extracted from remote patient readings. This interface was designed for real time access to patient readings, allowing patients to exchange real time sensorial data (body temperature, pressure, heart beat, etc) live or offline. The idea is to provide a platform where providers and clients can interact independently from institutions, decreasing the cost associated with commuting and overall hospital (or any institution) bureaucracy. The concept also protects confidentiality with patient sensitive data along with biometrics to prevent any violations or fraud.
The role of Telemedicine continuous to grow as technology evolves, health professionals enjoy the idea of remote contact with patients but lack an ideal intuitive e-health solution implemented with simplicity, usability and legality to be used as an accountable tool. The main issue faced by health professionals is the solution surrounds legality, health insurance organizations claim the possibility of fraud when remote sessions are established between patient and doctor without a 3rd party authority validating the session, similar to showing proof of identification at a hospital front desk. By adopting biometric access control along with other device sensors we can validate who, where, when and how the session was established.
Insurance corporations currently rely solely in the health institution to provide authentication, only after a client is validated insurance companies will agree to provide financial assistance predetermined on contract. This bureaucratic process model is similar to a capital oriented open market negotiation, far from having clients and providers needs as a main priority. This capital oriented business practice decrease quality on level care and only protects the relationship between the institution and health insurance corporations, shifting the priority from health professional and patient to insurance and hospital. This project focus in reverting focus back to health professional and patient.
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