The next point of medical care for providers may simply be the car.
General Motors is a patent for a generation of cars that tracks the habit and fitness of the motive force through sensors, according to Autoblog. com. Generation can help identify driving forces that are impaired or impaired across a wide variety of physical conditions, from drugs and alcohol to problems with intellectual acuity, breathing, blood pressure, or blood sugar.
The company’s plans, which have been underway since at least 2022, are to create an in-house car generation platform that establishes a profile of driver habits, dubbed “assessment of the intellectual well-being of vehicle occupants. “They are out of the ordinary and use a “countermeasure deployment,” which can range from asking the driver to perform an “intellectual fitness exercise,” calling family members or a trained professional, or even taking their vehicle. car.
The concept is not new. For many years, automotive expos at CES in Las Vegas have hinted at and even shown prototypes of sensors and technologies aimed at tracking the health of drivers. Cars can now be supplied with a generation that prevents a driver under the influence of alcohol from starting the car.
This effort is similar to the remote patient tracking movement, in which healthcare providers seek to track patients and supply them on-demand outdoors from the hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office. And with systems like the WHIT House in Lake Nona, Florida, targeting smart home concepts, automakers intend to do the same with their latest vehicles.
In addition to tracking down others with substance abuse problems, health care providers and public fitness advocates say the generation can easily resolve injuries similar to driving force misery within a year or two, such as intellectual fitness issues, blood pressure, diabetes, core problems, and even allergic reactions. While those injuries account for only about 2% of all injuries in the U. S. , they do not account for the U. S. UU. al year, according to data compiled by the U. S. Department of Transportation,In the U. S. , 84% of them are caused by potentially detectable and preventable medical emergencies. .
Ideally, one day the generation could be used to identify hazards for drivers, such as smog or a high pollen concentration for others with respiratory problems, or to direct (or even direct) drivers to a nearby healthcare facility in the event of an emergency. emergency.
A number of car brands are taking a serious look at fitness and wellness tools. In recent years, Mazda, Audi and Toyota have said they use next-generation cars equipped with a wide variety of sensors, adding ECG sensors on the idler and headphones. Designed to measure the deterioration of driving force.
And in 2011, Ford Motor Company announced partnerships with virtual fitness corporations WellDoc, Medtronic and SDI Health to deliver fitness and wellness connectivity answers on the Ford SYNC platform.
“We need to broaden the paradigm, transforming SYNC into a tool that improves people’s lives as well as the driving experience,” said Paul Mascarenas, Ford’s head of leadership generation and vice president of research and innovation, in a May 2011 press release.
The company also announced plans to integrate sensors into seats to monitor a person’s heart rate, but in 2015 scrapped those plans. And while the newer SYNC platform offers app integration, there’s no mention of fitness and wellness monitoring.
In many cases, automakers have abandoned those plans, believing that wearable devices would do a much greater job of tracking drivers and passengers. But the fact that GM is actively in this generation means it hasn’t abandoned the idea.
Eric Wicklund is Chief Content Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Innovation, Technology and Pharmacy at HealthLeaders.
Healthcare providers are in favor of more tactics to track patients’ fitness outdoors in the hospital, clinic, or doctor’s office.
Like the smart home concept, automakers are contemplating a generation that can monitor drivers and even interfere if they are in danger.
The generation may not only provide providers with a new access point for care management, but also for addressing injuries caused by medical emergencies.
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