The Leadership in Digital Health Initiative at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), funded by a $133,000 Innovation Grant from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, aims to create a wearable technology or application that would securely hold elements of a patient’s personal health history.
A patient arrives in a hospital emergency room badly injured and unconscious. The Emergency Department team must work quickly to save the patient’s life, often while knowing nothing about his or her medical history. Is the patient diabetic? On blood-thinning medication? Have heart disease? ... |