Characteristics of Future Models of Integrated Outpatient Care

Abstract

Replacement of fee-for-service with capitation arrangements, forces physicians and institutions to minimize health care costs, while maintaining high-quality care. In this report we described how patients and their families (or caregivers) can work with members of the medical care team to achieve these twin goals of maintaining—and perhaps improving—high-quality care and minimizing costs. We described how increased self-management enables patients and their families/caregivers to provide electronic patient-reported outcomes (i.e., symptoms, events) (ePROs), as frequently as the patient or the medical care team consider appropriate. These capabilities also allow ongoing assessments of physiological measurements/phenomena (mHealth). Remote surveillance of these communications allows longer intervals between (fewer) patient visits to the medical-care team, when this is appropriate, or earlier interventions, when it is appropriate. Systems are now available that alert medical care providers to situations when interventions might be needed.

Pediatric Epilepsy: Time For New Research Goals

“…Self-management of epilepsy has in the last years been more discussed. But in contrast to asthma or diabetes mellitus, it is still in its infancy [61][62][63].…”

Epilepsy Seizure Detection and Prediction Based on DeviceHive

“…[1] A review of signal processing techniques and classification methods assessed in seizure prediction studies New databases, higher sampling frequencies, adequate preprocessing, electrode selection, and machine-learning considerations may increase seizure forecasting capabilities. [27] This paper presents a review of recent efforts and journal articles on seizure prediction. And also emphasized some new prototype based ideas using machine learning and deep neural network.…”