Emergency response solutions

In the very same way because connection is at the heart of global healthcare, it can boost the effectiveness of emergency response during the "golden hour," when timely medical intervention might make the difference between life and death.

Historically, sharing data between ambulances, A&E departments, and specialists in a way that allows for a real-time reaction has been impossible.

 

Doctors wearing VR glasses get the same image as if they were inside the ambulance thanks to a 5G-powered remote emergency channel that connects to a command center. On a big screen in the command center, doctors get data on a patient's vital signs in real time, including the patient's ECG, ultrasound image, blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation, and temperature.

 

The patient's medical history can be promptly established, doctors can direct paramedics in the ambulance, and patients can be admitted to the hospital with their details and condition known shortly after arrival. This isn't something that will be used in the future; several hospitals in China are now employing it..

SMART—An App Platform for Healthcare

SMART Health IT is an open, standards based technology platform that enables innovators to create apps that seamlessly and securely run across the healthcare system. Using an electronic health record (EHR) system or data warehouse that supports the SMART standard, patients, doctors, and healthcare practitioners can draw on this library of apps to improve clinical care, research, and public health.

The SMART platform is composed of open standards, open source tools for developers building apps and a publicly accessible app gallery. To date, dozens of clinical applications have been built on this platform, and SMART applications are being used to provide clinical care at healthcare institutions, including Boston Children’s Hospital and Duke Medicine.

The project is run out of the not-for-profit institutions, Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program and the Harvard Medical School Department for Biomedical Informatics.

Open Standards

Open standards enable developers to build apps that can connect to health data systems such as EHRs and data warehouses without requiring specialized knowledge about each system. For clinicians, patients, and researchers, standards facilitate an ecosystem of third party apps that can offer EHR modules tailored to their needs, as well as extend systems with new capabilities such as integrated precision medicine.

The SMART project defines a health data layer that builds on the emerging FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) API and resource definitions. FHIR provides a detailed set of “core” data models, but in order to support diverse requirements across varied regions and use cases, many fields optional and vocabularies are under-constrained. To enable substitutable health apps as well as third-party application services, SMART applies a set of “profiles” that provide developers with expectations about the vocabularies that are used to express medications, problems, labs, and other clinical data.