Advancing Digital Health: Development of an Open Standard for the Personal Physiologic Data Vault (PPDV)
A fundamental transformation of high quality healthcare delivery is underway, though it has been painfully slow. The prevalent emphasis for healthcare delivery has remained on "point-of-care" healthcare delivery paradigms focused on highly regulated workflow models and dated business and regulatory constraints. Fortunately, it has become increasingly clear that there also are opportunities to better address such shortcomings in healthcare delivery through reinvention of healthcare delivery paradigms, which significantly may improve our ability to deliver timely personalized care, tailored to the evolving and ongoing needs of each patient. The goal of this presentation is to provide an introduction into what engineers, IT specialists, and collaborating healthcare personnel can do to facilitate more effective healthcare delivery models that promote more relevant and higher quality equitable healthcare delivery options. One important aspect of such transformation is the development of new workflows that are the consequence of enabling ubiquitous and meaningful physiologic data interoperability. A key aspect of this is to shift focus towards a patient-centric open standard physiologic data vault, from which one’s own curated Personal Health Record may be derived, and from which healthcare enterprises can be granted access for providing individualized medical services. This presentation reviews evolving efforts that have been underway in the development of an EMBS-sponsored IEEE open standard for granular Speaker(s): Paul R. Steiner, MD, BSEE, Room: 128, Bldg: School of Engineering, Technology and Aeronautics, 2500 North River Road, Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03106