Medication Treatment Monitoring

A Bakersfield-based medical software company has responded quickly to the coronavirus pandemic with its launch Tuesday of a cloud-based computer platform designed to help physicians remotely monitor COVID-19 patients. Sargas Pharmaceutical Adherence and Compliance International's system uses Bluetooth-connected wireless medical devices — or, if that's not available, manual data entry — to record patients' temperature, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, pulse and weight. That information is then shared with caregivers over a secure internet connection. CEO Gitesh "Git" Patel, who has worked closely with Bakersfield's Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center for many years, said his roughly 30-employee company has worked in the field of remote patient monitoring for several years. It now provides non-COVID-19 illness management services to hundreds of doctors and some 15,000 patients around the country. When the coronavirus pandemic arose, the company looke...

In the current healthcare scenario, value-based care has become increasingly dependent on technology since modern digitization has significantly augmented it. Emerging advancements like AI and APIs assist in meaningfully integrating data to deliver a high quality of care. Likewise, it helps in reduction of hospitalizations, ER visits, and nursing home visits, which ultimately decrease healthcare expenses. However, according to Git Patel, the CEO of SPAC International, the present technologies still lack some intelligent features which only a human can do. One can say, technology is not fully developed yet to act as a human being. To further elaborate, he gives an example of a patient using wearable to track daily activities. In this case, if the patient forgets to wear the device, then his complete efforts go waste. This applies to every patient utilizing technology. Therefore, to avoid such complications and disengagement of patient and technology, Git’s company brings human assistanc...