An adapter was developed to enable data transfer from stand-alone medical devices, such as glucometers, via the wireless Bluetooth or wired USB standards.  The adapter enables the provision of low cost remote patient and vital sign monitoring solutions for chronic and acute disease management.

A remote patient monitoring system was developed for improved chronic disease management.  The system utilizes commodity mobile phones and newly introduced Bluetooth-enabled medical devices to transmit patient physiological information from the home to a central repository where alerts and reports can be generated and delivered to both patient and provider.

Despite the known health benefits of home therapy, many patients feel they cannot accept the responsibility of caring for themselves due to the complexity. A support system was developed to facilitate nocturnal home hemodialysis.

The objective of this project will be to demonstrate the use of vital sign capture and monitoring to enhance the effectiveness of the Ontario Critical Care Response Teams (CCRTs).  This will be facilitated through the capture of vital sign data into an electronic format, applying rules and logic to this data to identify patient deterioration, and generating an automated alert to the appropriate clinician when deterioration is detected.

A digital video capture system that integrates seamlessly into an existing Electronic Patient Record infrastructure was developed to improve the documentation of endoscopic procedures. Still images are sent to the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication system), and videos are sent to a web review application. A standard clinical desktop application is used to unify the review of all patient records, including captured still and video images.