The doctor is by your side. Intel injects new vitality into smart healthcare

If you live in a remote mountain area and need a heart stent urgently, what challenges will you face? The nearest large hospital is located in a big city far away, and you can only get there by taking a long-distance bus, which takes several hours and costs a lot of money. For an ordinary heart stent patient, it takes at least three such trips to see a doctor before the doctor can perform the operation.

Smart healthcare is solving various problems that people encounter in the process of seeking medical treatment. Simply put, smart healthcare is a patient-centered information system that optimizes the existing medical information service platform through innovative information technology, achieves better interconnection between patients, doctors, medical equipment and hospitals, improves disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and makes the entire medical system full of intelligence.

Telemedicine transcends geographical barriers

Now, even if you live in a mountainous area or even more remote areas where there is no access to roads, you don’t have to worry about getting medical treatment like before. Because telemedicine technology can put medical experts and patients in the "same room" - no matter where they are actually. The Medicina a Distancia telemedicine vehicle can transmit high-definition audio and video in real time, allowing trained experts in large urban hospitals to "see" and consult patients in remote rural clinics. This diagnosis and treatment process is almost comparable to receiving a doctor's examination in person, without the need to travel long distances.

At the heart of the Medicina a Distancia telemedicine vehicle is a computing system based on a powerful and intelligent Intel® Core™ processor. It is able to connect with cardiac monitoring devices, blood pressure monitors, thermometers, X-ray machines, CT scanners, ultrasound systems and other equipment that collect important patient data and run medical diagnosis-related processes. While examining patients, the Medicina a Distancia system transmits key data related to the patient's condition, allowing experts to "see" the patient and the data at any time to make an accurate diagnosis and provide treatment plans on the spot.

“Our telemedicine system can significantly reduce costs,” said Dr. Carlos Iglesias, co-founder of Medicina a Distancia. “Trained medical specialists can quickly connect with patients anywhere, even in remote villages with no access to roads. With one telemedicine van at the hospital and another at a local clinic, there is no need to transfer patients simply for a diagnosis, and medical specialists can see them right away.”

Telemedicine devices such as the Medicina a Distancia medical vehicle can break down geographical barriers that prevent people from accessing optimal medical conditions, supporting hospitals to build a bridge of communication with patients thousands of miles away.

Mobile diagnosis breaks the life-or-death race

For smart healthcare, it is not enough to just have telemedicine equipment. In an emergency, the time it takes to correctly diagnose a patient’s condition and transfer them to the right hospital is often a critical issue in determining life or death for the patient. In some cases, a few seconds or minutes can lead to completely different results, so it is crucial to be able to make the right decision on the spot and provide appropriate treatment.

Now, more and more ambulances are equipped with mobile diagnostic systems that can wirelessly connect to remote medical facilities, which speeds up the patient's entry into intensive care and helps patients reach the best treatment institution more accurately. Imagine the following scenario, when a heart patient is rushed to the hospital, he needs emergency intubation, that is, a balloon is inserted into the blocked artery through a "coronary angioplasty" process to restore blood flow. But the problem is that only some hospitals have cardiac intubation facilities and necessary imaging equipment in their surgical departments. In this case, the patient's survival rate may depend on the time to receive this special care immediately. This means that emergency medical care can only really help speed up treatment by choosing the nearest and correct hospital.

During emergency rescue, Intel technology used in portable computers and mobile diagnostic systems in ambulances will play a key role in collecting, analyzing and transmitting data to medical centers, allowing doctors to quickly decide whether a catheter is needed. It is worth mentioning that the mobile diagnostic system is also equipped with GPS technology, which can automatically navigate to the nearest medical institution. At the same time, when the ambulance is on the road, the alarm will be sounded to notify the hospital, so that the patient can bypass the emergency room and be sent directly to the cardiac catheterization center.

“Mobile diagnostic systems are critical in emergency response by minimizing the time it takes for an ambulance to get from the scene of an incident to the nearest medical facility with an intubation lab,” said Steven Graves, president of Applied Healthcare, a leading IT consulting and systems integration company. “Intel technology enables us to remotely perform ALS and EMS at the scene of an incident. The system keeps communications and computing resources in optimal use virtually anywhere, at any time.”