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Intel ® Health Guide is the first product series designed to allow management more personalized care for chronic health conditions and age-related

Intel Corporation today announced the launch of the Intel ® Health Guide, a care management tool designed for health professionals who care for chronically ill patients. The Health Guide represents Intel's entry into a new category of personal health systems that go beyond simple patient monitoring systems available today distance.

The Intel ® Health Guide, which was authorized to market 510 (k) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of United States in July, is a comprehensive personal health system combining a home device for the patient, the Intel PHS6000 ® Health Guide, with an online interface-the Intel ® Health Care Management Suite, which allows health workers to track patients who are treated at home, and manage care remotely.

"The Health Guide is a step forward in offering a more personalized and effective management of chronic health conditions in the home," said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel Digital Health Group. "Intel has spent years researching the needs of both caregivers and patients, and now we are developing a series of products that will help extend care from hospital to home. Our products help meet the challenges of an aging population and rising rates of chronic diseases. "

Intel is working with leaders in the healthcare industry worldwide to validate the clinical benefits of the Health Guide in a wide range of chronic conditions and applications to welfare and health. Pilot studies are planned in the United States in collaboration with health organizations such as Aetna, Erickson Retirement Communities, Providence Medical Group in Oregon and SCAN Health Plan. The goals and objectives are to advise on how the Health Guide integrates with different care management models of home health. These first studies focus on the ability to demonstrate improvements in outcomes of treatments for diseases such as heart failure, diabetes, hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Customers have profiles such as Advanced Warning Systems, Inc. (AWS), a provider of products for the healthcare and services based on the Web, which keeps track of people with acute cardiovascular symptoms that can cause sudden death . AWS will use the Intel Health Guide to connect to a class of intended users, including retired athletes and veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the highest incidence of cardiovascular-type diseases.

The Health Guide promotes greater patient engagement and more efficient management, enabling communication between patients and health professionals and enabling medical personnel to access the data more actionable and current. This solution offers interactive tools for personalized health care and includes vital sign collection, patient reminders, statistics, multimedia educational content and feedback and communications tools such as video conferencing and alerts. Medical personnel have continuous access to data, so you can better manage each patient's conditions, while nursing themselves benefit from customized care in the comfort of your own living room.

Intel is working with leading organizations in health services that have an understanding of the processes of care, with them, develop extraordinary patient care plans as well as multimedia educational content for chronic conditions. Specifically, Intel is negotiating with the Mayo Clinic to buy the rights to use educational content from MayoClinic.com, to place them available to customers using the Health Guide. In addition, Intel is working with the American Heart Association to create care plans based on treatment guidelines of the organization, in a pilot project for the ongoing management of patients with heart failure. The intention is to help health professionals to track patients and remotely manage their care in accordance with scientific guidelines, as well as provide patients quick access to educational materials targeted and credible. Intel has also hired a team of medical experts to provide a range of professional services to enable healthcare organizations to successfully integrate its health system staff in their current programs of disease management and care in their models.

In addition, Intel plans to use the key components of this technology to build products targeted at new areas such as independent living and programs for the management of health and welfare and to create new devices such as mobile phones and portable devices.

American Medical Alert Corporation (AMAC), a national provider of patient monitoring devices, will be the first channel in the U.S. market for the Intel Health Guide. By adding the Intel Health Guide to its portfolio of offerings, AMAC will be more equipped to offer its customers the best in technology management of care. The Health Guide is designed for use by health professionals to manage the care of their patients remotely. Currently, ordinary consumers can not purchase this product.