Well. Connected.

Well. Connected.

Eliminating Operator Error

The last video in our series on how the eShirt is addressing remote patient monitoring in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. Mitesh Patel MD, a board certified emergency physician and chair of eShirt’s medical advisory board, explains how eShirt’s passive data collection can greatly reduce operator error associated with many of today’s discrete monitoring devices, and helps healthcare providers extend their reach beyond the hospital or doctor’s office without compromising the quality of data needed to ensure proper care.

Hand's Free Data Collection for High Quality Insights from eShirt on Vimeo.

High Tech Simplified

In the 5th clip from our video interview, Medical Design Solution’s Medical Advisory Board Chair Dr. Mitesh Patel describes how eShirt’s wireless, integrated and wearable design makes collecting high-quality vital sign data simple enough for users of all ages and abilities.

Dr. Patel is a board certified emergency room physician, a fellow of both the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and the American Institute for Healthcare Quality, and a Certified Physician Executive (CPE). In his many roles as a senior executive with Dignity Healthcare, he implements and oversees forward-thinking programs designed to address the needs of an aging population faced with increasing rates of chronic disease, a shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers to care for them, and ever-increasing costs of care.

eShirt: High Tech Monitoring Made Simple from eShirt on Vimeo.

Transitional Care: From Hospital to Home

As hospitals look for ways to shorten patient stays and prevent readmissions, they are looking for ways to continue to care for and watch over patients as they transition from hospital to home. In the third video in our series, Dr. Mitesh Patel, chair of eShirt’s medical advisory board, explains the role eShirt can play in ensuring patients continue to receive the care they need during the critical period following a hospital stay.

eShirt and Transitional Care from eShirt on Vimeo.

Quite a “Bit” Better

In the second of our series of videos on how the eShirt is addressing the needs of a rapidly changing healthcare landscape, Mitesh Patel MD, chair of eShirt’s Medical Advisory Board, explains how the quality of data collected and the context of that data to multiple different physiological parameters sets eShirt apart from the existing crowd of discrete wearable devices.

Quite a "Bit" Better: Medical Quality Data in Context from eShirt on Vimeo.

eShirt and the New Healthcare Landscape

Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with Mitesh Patel, MD, chair of eShirt’s scientific advisory board. These videos will focus on the emerging challenges in today’s healthcare landscape, and on how eShirt as a next-generation remote patient monitoring system can play a role in addressing them.

Dr. Patel is a board certified emergency room physician, a fellow of both the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and the American Institute for Healthcare Quality, and a Certified Physician Executive (CPE). In his many roles as a senior executive with Dignity Healthcare, he implements and oversees forward-thinking programs designed to address the needs of an aging population faced with increasing rates of chronic disease, a shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers to care for them, and ever-increasing costs of care.

In this first episode Dr. Patel describes the need of healthcare providers to extend their reach beyond the hospital and other traditional settings to patient’s homes or wherever they love to be.

eShirt Addresses the New Healthcare Landscape from eShirt on Vimeo.

Real Introductions

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

We face a potential “perfect storm” in healthcare: a growing shortfall in the number of nurses and primary care physicians needed to care for a rapidly aging population that is also coping with increasing rates of chronic disease. While all of us can now expect to live longer, we are often more concerned with the quality than the length of our lives. When polled, 82% of seniors expressed a desire to age in place, and to remain connected to the people and places that give their lives meaning.

Well. Connected. will explore solutions to these complex challenges, and highlight the ways in which we and others can extend  the reach of physicians and nurses while addressing the desire of patients to feel both connected and independent.

First, a little bit about us. You can read more about our team’s professional experience here, but we are real people  –engineers, scientists, healthcare professionals, and medical device executives – who are looking ahead to the responsibility (and privilege) of caring for our parent’s generation as they grow older. In doing so, we’ve come to recognize the need to revolutionize how we address chronic illness and aging for millions of people around the world by making healthcare more accessible, more affordable and, most importantly, more capable of preserving independence and community.

Coffeeshop_1600pxWe go to work each morning with real people in mind. Larry Garnett, pictured above, below and atop our home page, is a former WWII naval aviator, retired mechanical engineer, and husband of 68 years. At 92, he’s still learning, building and innovating every day. And he’s inspiring us to do the same, to play a part in creating a new model of care that keeps him close to who and what he loves.

Workshop_1600pxGoing forward, we’ll share more real stories of how we’re working to make our vision a reality, including an upcoming test of the eShirt system that will connect explorers in the most remote regions on the planet with researchers, emergency teams, and friends and family.

We’d love to have you along for the journey (you can subscribe page right). Here’s to a long, well-connected life.