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- Week 4: August 18-22
Project Accomplishments
This week we launched the Northland CAPS Mozilla Project Advisory Board of experts and our student team. As a result of the launch meeting, we reviewed the project goal, project problem statement, essential questions, and high level project plan. We still need to clarify project success metrics.
Plans were made for members of the Project Advisory Board to provide guest instruction beginning next week for the student team in the areas of:
• Affordable Care Act (Dr. Sam Turner, Diane Kipping) • Readmission Rates of CHF Patients, Current Interventions, and Results (Dr. Haideri) • Actual patient scenarios (Dr. Haideri, Diane Kipping) • Gigabit technologies and potential usage for telehealth (Kari Keefe) • Current market for remote monitoring in the field of medicine and healthcare (Steve Fennel)
Plans were made for a variety of tours and observations to support the Design Thinking Process of Discovery.
• Tours of CHF Clinics and conversations with clinicians and home health providers • Tours of Home health agencies and conversations with providers • Observation and conversation with patients • Demo of Gigabit technologies • Demo of Heart to Heart technologies • Tour of Sprint Accelerator to see Symptomly and learn about analyzing the user (patient) experience • Demonstration of SightDeckKC at Union Station http://sightdeckkc.com
- Week 3: August 11-15
Background
Northland CAPS received a grant from the Mozilla Foundation through the Gigabit Community Fund for STUDENTS REDUCE PATIENT READMISSIONS WITH THE GIG. The grant period is from July 28, 2014 – October 31, 2014.
Northland CAPS students, high school juniors and seniors from six school districts, will collaborate with business partners like KU Medical Center, Liberty Hospital, North Kansas City Hospital, Heart to Heart Network, LLC and many others to develop a suite of communications/monitoring/treatment tools for clinicians and high-risk patients with the desired outcome of reducing the frequency of readmission, all while learning how to build, engineer and market next generation gigabit technologies and applications.
Northland Center for Advanced Professional Studies (Northland CAPS) provides high school students in the Northland a professional, innovative and entrepreneurial education through career-oriented experiences that represent high demand/high skill job opportunities. Students learn from global and local leaders, such as Ford Motor Company, Holland 1916, Cerner, North Kansas City Hospital, Liberty Hospital, and Bank Liberty. Students are able to gain experience working with real businesses and learning through meaningful projects.
Northland CAPS serves students from the school districts of Kearney, Liberty, North Kansas City, Park Hill, Platte County and Smithville. Northland CAPS is an example of how business, community and public education can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the needed workforce of tomorrow, especially in high skill, high demand jobs.
Project Accomplishments
To date, the NCAPS team has commissioned a Project Advisory Board of experts that will support, mentor, teach and facilitate student teams in the development of a suite of communications/monitoring/treatment tools for clinicians and high-risk patients.
Using Human Centered Design Thinking principles, the team has met with each of the experts uncovering the issues of readmission and the current state of telehealth practices. We met with CEO, Abhi Ray, from HeartToHeart Network, LLC to learn more about remote monitoring of patients. HeartToHeart provides a technology solution for Remote Patient Management that delivers meaningful and actionable information to the right people at the right time. In a collaborative fashion, patients, clinicians and families receive timely information to improve the quality of life while significantly lowering healthcare costs. Patients are informed of actions they can take to improve their condition. Clinicians can make informed diagnostic decisions based on timely information. Families can monitor the well-being of their loved ones and assist in the recovery process, in real time, from anywhere. Their system is designed for post surgical and chronic illness patients at home.
Additionally, we met with Derek Bereit, CEO and Co-founder of Symptomly, which has developed a platform that is a clinically-validated, web-based dashboard, mobile app and communication portal for primary care providers and patients to effectively track patient-entered health symptoms. Its first product is eAsthma Tracker, a patient-entered data system for child asthma, developed by researchers at the U and Intermountain Healthcare’s Primary Children’s Medical Center. The platform has over $4 million in current and previous research — validating a reduction in child asthma re-admissions from 40 percent (nationally) to only 2.3 percent.
We have also located key cardiologists and nurse practitioners from Liberty Hospital and North Kansas City Hospital who are directly involved in CHF Clinics responsible for reducing readmission of CHF patients through telehealth and remote monitoring.
- More to come...
Northland CAPS Partners
Metrics & Outcomes
Northland CAPS Outcomes
We will build X. Y people will visit it. Z remixes will be made. This technology is new and innovative because... Etc.
Learning Outcomes
By participating in the pilot, X number of people will learn the Y...
We will measure these learning outcomes by X, Y, and Z methods.
Community Outcomes
We will share how our project impacts the KC community. Stay tuned!
Show & Tell
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