GPS Wellness

Willem De Kooning, the great 20th century abstract exressionist, noticed that he was having problems remembering things.  His wife Elaine, wrote to him warning that despite his good physical health that he would soon be a vegetable.  Though painful, the remark was darkly truthful. deKooning was a victim of Alzheimer’s and was going to lose his genius, his memory and his will. Yet his genius persisted allwong him to create more than three hundred works in the decade before he succumbed.

Curiously a panel of curators was establishied to determine the value of De Kooning’s contribution because his dementia should surely have impacted his genius.  Even more curious was the lack of a similar inquiry in the 50’s and 60’s to evaluate the works he created as an alcholic.

The stigma of dementia afflicts all of us… rendering us as vacant as a blank canvas. The vacancy left by those lost memories means that we may wander and need assistance finding the path home. To that seeming simple challenge of remembering our address, thirty satellites circumnavigating the globe send the location of lost love ones carrying Personal Location Systems notifying caregivers of  their precise location before the paint dries.

Frost & Sullivan’s expert analysts thoroughly examine remote vital sign monitoring technologies: clinical thermometry, blood pressure monitoring, pulse oximetry, multiparameter monitoring systems, and wearable vital signs monitoring. The value of these systems is of growing importance as our life spans extend beyond the capabilities of an overtaxed health care infrastructure.

It has been estimated that the worldwide geriatric population is increasing by 2 percent every year owing to advances in health care services, advanced surgical procedures and new medications coming to market.

The progressive increase in the senior population will certainly increase the pressure on health care providers to meet this ever expanding demand for quality, timely care. Availing health providers with timely patient vital sign data can be the tipping point for a critical resource deployment decision.

“Vital Sign monitoring is now available as wearable monitoring systems, such as wearable heart rate monitors and respirometers that are increasingly being used in sports, medicine, and home monitoring,” according to the analyst of the study. “In addition to being wearable, vital sign monitoring solutions have become integrated into wireless monitoring systems that enable clinicians to collect patient data across large distances and locate them with GPS certainty.”

It is evident that vital sign monitoring technology has evolved both in terms of functional efficiency and breadth of application. “The trend is toward the integration of independent monitoring solutions and development of wearable diagnostic monitoring solutions that would enhance the quality of health and personal health monitoring independence,” explains the analyst. “Medical professionals will have the option to monitor their patients at a distance without requiring them to be present for oversight evaluations or to provide an appropriate response to an emerging situation.

GPS Personal Location Services technology provide the communication platform for the exchange of vital signs as well as the history of activity with current location. Invaluable is an inadequate nomenclature for life-saver.