Purpose:
To discuss smart devices for health and their potential for data-driven insights to inform care. Your post and reply should reflect essential concepts from the required materials in the module for this topic. Your discussion should focus on the disease process you were assigned in the prior module based on the first letter of your last name.
- Last names starting with G-L = diabetes
Initial post:
For the disease you were assigned, describe a smart device that is portable, wearable, ingestible, or implantable and could be used to monitor data important to the assigned disease and inform care. Provide specific details about its
- Use and maintenance by healthcare professionals and/or clients
- Specific data collection and retrieval
- Application to goals of care and patient outcomes, and
- Possible risk factors or limitations
- Support information with at least 2 current and professional sources (published within 5 years). In addition to current sources, older sources may also be included if used for historical context.
- Cite within the answer and add references below post.
Reply:
Review information about a device posted by another student and
- Explain how device data could contribute to the patient health record (PHR) and in what section(s) it would be included.
- Support information with at least 1 current and professional source (published within 5 years). Cite and reference sources included. In addition to a current source, older sources may also be included if used for historical context.
- Cite within the answer and add reference below post.
Formatting:
Questions
- a) single spacing and
- b) no indenting. This means you can:
- Use single spacing between lines
- Use single space to separate paragraphs
- Align sentences, paragraphs, and references at the left margin