It was a beautiful February day in New Orleans. The sound of bands filled the air as they prepared to march in a Mardi Gras parade. My grandfather, my father, and I were riding together for the first time. My grandfather was battling prostate cancer. To help him, I built a lifting chair to securely support his weak body. This allowed him to ride comfortably and engage the throngs for one last time.
The joy on my grandfather’s face is not to be forgotten. It still deeply moves me and continues to inspire me to pursue my dream of using my talents in creating solutions that improve people’s lives.
This year I had the opportunity of interning at a technology startup company. I was asked to research and specify requirements for a more effective way of helping people with chronic conditions to better manage their diseases. The expected outcomes included advancing quality of life, improving long-term prognosis, and reducing hospital readmission rates. …show more content…
The most important objective for any patient with a chronic condition is close monitoring of their disease. This requires patients to not only take multiple readings a day, but also requires them to be accurate in recording those readings. Doctors I spoke with expressed concern about the reliability of data captured manually by patients. This is very problematic given a patient, with multiple morbidities, may be required to take as many as 10 separate readings a day from their glucometer, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, and weight scale.
Complicating the problem space, patients with chronic diseases also typically have feelings of depression which reduce
The joy on my grandfather’s face is not to be forgotten. It still deeply moves me and continues to inspire me to pursue my dream of using my talents in creating solutions that improve people’s lives.
This year I had the opportunity of interning at a technology startup company. I was asked to research and specify requirements for a more effective way of helping people with chronic conditions to better manage their diseases. The expected outcomes included advancing quality of life, improving long-term prognosis, and reducing hospital readmission rates. …show more content…
The most important objective for any patient with a chronic condition is close monitoring of their disease. This requires patients to not only take multiple readings a day, but also requires them to be accurate in recording those readings. Doctors I spoke with expressed concern about the reliability of data captured manually by patients. This is very problematic given a patient, with multiple morbidities, may be required to take as many as 10 separate readings a day from their glucometer, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, and weight scale.
Complicating the problem space, patients with chronic diseases also typically have feelings of depression which reduce