​ Case Study: Emerging Wireless Technology in the Healthcare Industry

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The medical industry is a good example of an industry that must balance the security issues associated with wireless technologies with the business value added from wireless technologies.

Read the article attached about how wireless and mobile devices will change the healthcare practices titled, “Strategy: How Mobility, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthcare”

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1.Summarize the current and emerging wireless medical technologies.

2.Describe the wireless components needed for added business value in the healthcare environment.

3.Assess the additional staffing and support requirements needed to support the wireless technologies.

4.Analyze the potential technical and regulatory problems with implementing a wireless network in a healthcare organization and describe the mitigation methods to overcome these potential problems in the healthcare industry.

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Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

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Next reports Rep or ts.InformationWeek.com How Mobility, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthcare The mobile health movement has legs, but it won’t hit its stride until physicians and patients connect with each other. Before that can happen, reimbursement models must change. IT must also address BYOD and select smart app strategies. Here’s a path forward for healthcare pros who want to take advantage of mobility advances. By Ken Terry Presented with Report ID: S5310712 July 2012 $99 Previous Next CONTENTS reports 3 4 5 5 6 6 7 8 8 9 9 11 12 TABLE OF reports.informationweek.com 12 14 Author’s Bio Executive Summary Consumer Mobile Health Apps Abound Figure 1: Use of Tools by Doctors to Collaborate With Peers ‘FDA Effect’ Hinders Chronic Disease Apps Figure 2: Use of Tools by Doctors to Collaborate With Patients Figure 3: Mobile Devices Used by Doctors Home Monitoring Evidence Mounts Figure 4: Reasons Doctors Use Mobile Devices Provider-Focused Applications Figure 5: Types of Tablets Used by Doctors Figure 6: Security-Related Challenges: Healthcare Providers Next Step: Connecting With Patients Figure 7: Applications Hosted in the Cloud: Healthcare Providers Related Reports How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are ABOUT US InformationWeek Reports’ analysts arm business technology decision-makers with real-world perspective based on qualitative and quantitative research, business and technology assessment and planning tools, and adoption best practices gleaned from experience. To contact us, write to managing director Art Wittmann at awittmann@techweb.com, content director Lorna Garey at lgarey@techweb.com, editor-at-large Andrew Conry-Murray at acmurray@techweb.com, and research managing editor Heather Vallis at hvallis@techweb.com. Find all of our reports at reports.informationweek.com. July 2012 2 Previous Next Table of Contents reports Ken Terry InformationWeek Reports How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are Ken Terry, the author of the book Rx For Health Care Reform (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007), is a former senior editor at Medical Economics magazine. Terry, who has received several journalism awards, now blogs regularly for InformationWeek Healthcare and also writes for Hospitals & Health Networks, iHealthBeat and Medscape. Want More? Never Miss a Report! Follow Follow reports.informationweek.com Follow Follow © 2012 InformationWeek, Reproduction Prohibited July 2012 3 Previous Next Table of Contents SUMMARY reports EXECUTIVE reports.informationweek.com How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are The tsunami of mobile device use has the potential to transform healthcare, experts say, but it will take time. So far, mobile health has had a much bigger effect on the work habits of physicians than on the care they provide to patients. That could change, however, as new reimbursement models emerge. “If you can imagine a world in which physicians and hospitals are paid based on the outcomes of patients, some of these technologies may be very integral to them getting paid and enabling them to do the right thing for the patient,” says Dr. Mohit Kaushal, chief strategy officer and executive VP of business development for the West Wireless Health Institute. John Moore, founder and CEO of Chilmark Research, agrees. Referring to mobile health apps designed to engage patients in their own healthcare, he says, “A lot of healthcare institutions are starting to look at these applications and how they might be deployed within the context of getting patients to better self-manage their care. As providers take on more of the risk in these new reimbursement models, they’re going to give these tools to their patients and say, ‘We want to you use this to help you take better care of yourself and track your care over time.’ ” Many consumers, of course, are already using standalone mobile health applications to track their fitness, wellness, exercise and diet, and some are utilizing apps created for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. But the potential for the latter apps will be limited until providers are ready to receive, process and act on the data. While definitions of mobile health usually include mobile devices, home monitoring can be viewed as part of the same trend. This is a form of remote patient monitoring, just as mobile health apps are when they’re connected to a provider office. Also, home monitoring will always be required for certain patients, especially elderly ones. Nevertheless, a recent IMS Health report forecast that 80% of the remote monitoring market will be mobile by 2016. The third big division of mobile health is provider applications. These include reference and rounding apps for physicians, iPad-native electronic health records, wireless medical devices in hospitals, and administrative applications that replicate the billing and appointment-making functions of a hospital’s patient portal. Little of this is revolutionary. But the increasing ability of providers to do clinical work on their mobile devices, coupled with the potential to communicate directly with patients’ smartphones, is laying the groundwork for much bigger changes in the future. Here’s how to prepare. July 2012 4 Previous Next Table of Contents reports How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are Consumer Mobile Health Apps Abound Somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 mobile health apps are available to consumers today. The vast majority of these applications are aimed at people who want to track their fitness or wellness activities or look up healthcare information on their smartphones and iPads or Android tablets. For example, there are apps that record how far you walk or run, how many calories you burn or how many hours you sleep. You can use other apps to weigh yourself or check your blood pressure. A whole new category of social gaming apps enables users to compete with family, friends or online buddies on losing weight or increasing exercise. Users can also share health information with one another and create online communities. Among the best-known examples of mobile health apps designed for people with chronic diseases is WellDoc’s DiabetesManager. In this application, users enter blood glucose readings and other data into their smartphones. They receive feedback, either on their mobile phones or on a website, from a “virtual” expert reports.informationweek.com who coaches them on managing their condition and provides tips on diet, exercise and other lifestyle factors. A trial of DiabetesManager showed a decline in HbA1c of 1.9% among the WellDoc app users, compared with 0.7% in the usual care group. Other apps allow patients to monitor their colitis (WellApps), alert them to allergy-producing conditions (SDI) and graph their blood pressure. In addition, Worcester Polytechnic In- Figure 1 Use of Tools by Doctors to Collaborate With Peers To what extent are clinicians in your organization using the following tools to collaborate with peers? Widely used Used on limited basis Not used Email/secure messaging 69% 24% 7% Portal or website 46% 33% 21% Videoconferencing 21% 43% 36% Instant messaging 20% 37% 43% Social media (online medical forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) 7% 28% 65% Internal wiki 6% 23% 71% Base: 337 respondents working at a doctors’ practice, hospital, healthcare center or other healthcare provider Data: InformationWeek 2012 Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of 476 business technology professionals, January 2012 R R4290312/22 July 2012 5 Previous Next Table of Contents FAST FACT 62% of doctors used iPads or other tablet computers, and 81% had smartphones, according to a pair of reports stitute researchers recently developed an app to detect atrial fibrillation through changes in skin color. WPI also has created a diabetes app that tracks weight and blood sugar levels, alerts patients when they’re off track and uses smartphone cameras to photograph incipient foot ulcers. While diabetes apps account for a large portion of the available chronic disease apps, Ben Chodor, CEO of Happtique, a company that catalogs and sells mobile health apps, says he has seen a big increase in mobile apps for other conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular conditions and even Crohn’s disease. Still, he admits apps aren’t available for every chronic condition—and there’s a reason for that. How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are Figure 2 Use of Tools by Doctors to Collaborate With Patients To what extent are clinicians in your organization using the following tools to collaborate with patients? Widely used Used on limited basis Not used Email or secure messaging 30% 35% 35% Portal or website 23% 35% 42% Videoconferencing 5% 22% 73% Instant messaging 4% 16% 80% Social media (online medical forums, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) 4% 9% 77% Internal wiki 2% 8% 90% Base: 337 respondents working at a doctors’ practice, hospital, healthcare center or other healthcare provider Data: InformationWeek 2012 Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of 476 business technology professionals, January 2012 R4290312/24 Manhattan Research surveys. ‘FDA Effect’ Hinders Chronic Disease Apps Why do relatively few mobile apps target patients with chronic diseases? One reason is that the Food and Drug Administration must approve any software application that is intended for medical treatment. The FDA has OK’d some mobile health applireports.informationweek.com R cations—including WellDoc DiabetesManager—and it issued a guidance document last year on how it might regulate this area. But observers say that more clarification is needed to assure entrepreneurs that chronic disease apps are safe to invest in. Meanwhile, they note, the wellness/fitness market is booming. Chronic-disease patients are more aware of mobile health apps than most people are, and many have tried them. But according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report, their participation tends to fade after a few months. Dr. Joseph Kvedar, founder and president of July 2012 6 Previous Next Table of Contents Research: Accountable Care Organizations As healthcare providers consider whether to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ACO program, many IT executives wonder whether it’s doable. Our expert analyst offers a blueprint for success. Download reports.informationweek.com reports the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, suggests that people with chronic diseases need to know that their providers are paying attention to the data they’re generating. He cites a CCH diabetes program in which patients were given a glucometer and a wireless device to upload data so they could get feedback from a diabetes educator. “The more data they uploaded, the better their outcome,” Kvedar says. “And the more they knew the nurse educator was looking at their data, the better the outcome. So there’s a feeling from patients that this home monitoring stuff is fine as long as the doctor’s paying attention to it.” Unfortunately, most physicians are not yet ready to pay attention to either mobile or home monitoring data. For one thing, they’re not getting paid to do it—a problem that should recede, observers say, as the healthcare system moves toward value-based reimbursement. Second, the typical clinical workflow is not set up to receive and act on monitoring data, even if it’s pre-sifted. Third, doctors don’t have a lot of faith in patient- How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are entered data, because patients can make errors and may put in data that makes them look better, Kvedar says. “We don’t have much credence in selfentered data here at the Center for Connected Health,” he states. “We believe that data should be sensor-derived and automatically uploaded whenever possible.” Dr. Mohit Kaushal, chief strategy officer and executive VP of business development for the West Wireless Health Institute, agrees, noting that automation prevents errors and elimi- Figure 3 Mobile Devices Used by Doctors Which mobile computing devices are doctors in your organization using for medical purposes? 2012 2011 Laptops 78% 74% Smartphones 69% 61% iPads or other tablet computers 66% 45% Other 1% 3% Our doctors don’t use mobile devices for medical purposes 11% 14% Note: Multiple responses allowed Base: 337 respondents in January 2012 and 357 in December 2010 working at a doctors’ practice, hospital, healthcare center or other healthcare provider Data: InformationWeek Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of business technology professionals R4290312/26 July 2012 7 Previous Next Table of Contents reports nates the burden of entering data. “Take a [digital] weight scale, for example,” he says. “If it’s Bluetooth-enabled, when somebody steps on that scale, the data is automatically transmitted rather than the patient having to selfenter it.” What this means is that home monitoring devices that use automated sensors, such as digital scales and blood pressure cuffs, have an edge over mobile monitoring apps in getting physicians’ attention. But there’s one big exception: garments with monitors imbedded in them and sensor “patches” that attach to the skin, both of which can automatically transmit data about vital signs. Powered by the miniaturization of wireless connectivity, wearable monitors have generated a respectable business in the fit ness/wellness area. There are signs that the use of wearables may expand into the chronic disease field, as well. For example, the Mayo Clinic has partnered with Preventice to develop a wearable device that monitors irregular heart rhythms. Sensor patches can be applied to the body, reports.informationweek.com How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are Figure 4 Reasons Doctors Use Mobile Devices For what purposes are your doctors using mobile computing devices? To access patient data 82% To communicate with other healthcare providers 62% To access decision support and other business intelligence applications 47% To communicate with patients 33% For all their computing needs; it’s their only computing device 19% Other 2% Note: Multiple responses allowed Base: 297 healthcare provider respondents at organizations where doctors use mobile computing devices Data: InformationWeek 2012 Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of 476 business technology professionals, January 2012 Kaushal says, “to monitor physical parameters, and we can’t feel the patch. Using heart failure as an example, you can monitor whether there’s fluid in someone’s lungs, where someone is decompensating before they feel unwell. That data is captured and moved around, and the hospital and the physician can intervene earlier.” He cites a San Diego R4290312/27 company named Corventis that makes a patch to monitor cardiovascular health. Home Monitoring Evidence Mounts Home telemonitoring has been around for more than a decade, and there’s growing evidence that it can improve outcomes and lower costs. A Veterans Health Administration July 2012 8 Previous Next Table of Contents Like This Report? Rate It! Something we could do better? Let us know. Rate reports.informationweek.com reports study a few years ago, for example, found that a combination of care coordination and home monitoring reduced hospital bed days by 25% and hospital admissions by 19%. More recently, a study by the Geisinger Health Plan showed that a home monitoring program for patients with heart failure cut readmission rates by 44% compared with a control group. Besides the traditional telemonitoring of vital signs, new applications and devices are helping seniors “age in place” at home. Motion-sensing technologies used in video games, for example, are being deployed to track people’s movements in their homes, while sensors in beds monitor their pulses and respiration rates. To monitor medication adherence, a company named Proteus inserts tiny wireless chips in pills that send out data when the medications are ingested, says Kaushal. However, a lack of provider reimbursement continues to hold back home monitoring as well as mobile health apps, says Chuck Parker, executive director of the Continua Health Alliance, which represents, among others, device How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are Figure 5 Types of Tablets Used by Doctors Which tablet(s) are in use by doctors at your organization? Apple iPad 83% Windows-based tablet 48% Android-based tablet 36% Other 3% Note: Multiple responses allowed Base: 222 healthcare provider respondents at organizations where doctors use tablet computers Data: InformationWeek 2012 Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of 476 business technology professionals, January 2012 manufacturers that make the monitoring equipment. “It’s difficult to fit home monitoring into a fee-for-service system, where a physician or other provider gets paid for everything they do,” Parker points out. Nevertheless, he believes this will all change if and when providers begin to be paid for keeping costs down and improving outcomes. At that point, he says, “it becomes much more apparent that you need to do home monitoring to keep the patients out of expensive care settings like hospitals. So the R4290312/28 shift to the accountable care organization model is driving significant interest in home monitoring. As those organizations mature, they’ll be driving the demand.” As for the incorporation of mobile apps into healthcare, Parker says it’s inevitable. “It will have an impact at some point, because it will allow better interaction with an informed consumer, and physicians will start looking for that data from mobile apps on a regular basis,” he says. “Eventually, you’ll start to see a shift— probably in the next tree to five years—where July 2012 9 Previous Next Table of Contents reports they’ll begin to look at that data coming into their system and interact with it on a more continuous or real-time basis.” Provider-Focused Applications Physicians are among the biggest users of mobile devices. A pair of Manhattan Research surveys recently found that 62% of doctors used iPads or other tablet computers, and 81% had smartphones. Only about half of the doctors who have tablets say they’ve used them at the point Hospital administrators and CIOs of care, and far fewer are seeing a tremendous demand are using them to look up electronic health from physicians to use their records. The vast majorpersonal mobile devices at work. ity of physicians use their iPads and Android tablets to view reference materials, access drug information and prescribe electronically. Nevertheless, hospital administrators and CIOs are seeing a tremendous demand from physicians to use their personal mobile devices at work. While many hospitals have been reports.informationweek.com How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are slow to respond to the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend because of security concerns, conversations with healthcare leaders indicate that they’re trying hard to meet their medical staffs’ needs. Neal Ganguly, VP and CIO of CentraState Health System in Freehold, N.J., says that BYOD is still in an early stage at his facility. Most of his staff is bringing in tablets and smartphones, and the hospital has enabled email access on the smartphones. In addition, CentraState is introducing computerized physician order entry and piloting the use of iPads in the initial group of doctors who are doing CPOE. Meanwhile, the hospital has noticed that some physicians and nurses are texting each other in a work context. While CentraState doesn’t want to stop that if it has a clinical benefit, Ganguly is looking for some way to encrypt the messages. He’s already using the AirWatch mobile device management system to lock down devices and wipe them if they’re lost or stolen. Both Ganguly and Dr. Craig Horton, VP of medical affairs at Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia, Ga., say that physicians no longer want to go near desktop computers. Meadows Regional is using a rounding program called PatientKeeper that has native versions for iPads, iPhones and Android phones, and most of the doctors have adopted the system for use in the hospital, Horton says. When Meadows Regional got PatientKeeper five years ago, he recalls, many doctors had Palm or Windows Mobile devices; while some used the connection that PatientKeeper provided to look up hospital records in their offices, few were using it on rounds. That changed dramatically, however, after iPhones appeared. Now most of the doctors use Patient Keeper in the hospital to keep track of lab and culture results, X-rays and consults, he says. “This has been a significant change in the workflow, and it has replaced the doctors’ phone call to the nurse asking her to look this or that up for him or what happened to a lab result,” he says. “Nurses are more productive as well.” Paul Brient, president of PatientKeeper, says July 2012 10 Previous Next Table of Contents reports How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are 3.5 3.4 Bolstering HITECH Act compliance Bolstering security for participation in health information exchange 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 Encryption Bolstering HIPAA compliance 3.5 3.4 3.6 3.5 Bolstering fraud-identification capabilities 3.6 3.6 Training staff on existing policies and enforcing them Securing mobile devices 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.7 Protecting against data breaches, hacking Ensuring patient data is secure and privacy requirements are adhered to 1 Not significant 3.8 3.7 Very significant 5 he has seen several distinct growth periods in the adoption of mobile devices during his 10 Figure 6 years with the company. After Palms, Brient Security-Related Challenges: Healthcare Providers How significant a challenge will each of the following security-related issues pose to your organization over the noted, there was the Treo smartphone and the next 12 months? Please use a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is “not significant” and 5 is “very significant.” BlackBerry. But today’s smartphones and 2012 2011 tablets are something different. “We’re seeing penetration rates go up significantly among physicians,” he says. “And the things you can do with these devices are so much broader. We’re bringing PACS images down to iPads and even to iPhones. “For doctors, it’s no longer a question of whether you use mobility, but of how you use mobility,” he says. Besides the security issues, the biggest obstacle to the full use of mobile devices right now is technological. Smartphones are too small to view electronic health records comfortably, and none of the leading vendors has yet made a high-end iPad-native EHR. One problem with using a non-native EHR, Ganguly says, is R4290312/29 Note: Mean average ratings that if you use the touch screen to click or type, Base: 337 respondents in January 2012 and 357 in December 2010 working at a doctors’ practice, hospital, healthcare center or other healthcare provider it’s easy to make an error. Still, there are Data: InformationWeek Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of business technology professionals workarounds: At Partners Healthcare in Boston, clinicians are able to view information in their R reports.informationweek.com July 2012 11 Next reports.informationweek.com 61% 58% Other clinical applications Picture archiving communication system (PACS) Financial (including insurance-related apps) Clinical decision support Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) 47% 47% 51% 56% 56% 58% 58% 59% 63% 50% R Storage Next Step: Connecting With Patients A growing number of hospitals are trying to connect with patients on their mobile devices, but in a very limited way. For the most part, says John Moore of Chilmark Research, they’re providing access to a mobile personal health record or portal and doing some simple transactional processing. In other words, they’re taking the services they have on their pa- Figure 7 tient Web portals—such as online Applications Hosted in the Cloud: Healthcare Providers bill paying and appointment Which applications does your organization host or plan to host in the cloud? requests—and transferring them 2012 2011 to a mobile platform. Tellingly, Moore adds, most of the money for these projects comes from hospitals’ marketing departments. Few hospitals or physician practices are yet using mobile health apps for what Moore calls “care provisioning”—which means giving patients mobile apps specifically designed to help them manage their health. There are several reasons for this—and not all of them have to do with reimbursement. “Health IT departments are busy with other things; for instance, they’re trying to put in a workable R4290312/32 Note: Percentages reflect a response of “currently hosted,” “planned within the next EHR system,” he says. “Second, three months,” “planned within the next six months” or “planned within the next 12 months” Base: 192 healthcare provider respondents in January 2012 and 184 in December 2010 at organizations they’re focused on physician using or planning to use cloud computing services Data: InformationWeek Healthcare IT Priorities Survey of business technology professionals enablement on the mobile side— they’re trying to enable their clini59% 57% EHR on their mobile devices, using a specially designed presentation layer from InterSystems. Also, many hospital IT departments allow EHR access through an iPad by means of a Citrix thin client approach, although the security and manageability of virtualization doesn't necessarily make up for a less-thanstellar user experience. We discuss this issue in depth in our report on anywhere, anytime application delivery. How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are E-prescribing reports 60% 61% Table of Contents EMR or EHR Previous July 2012 12 Previous Next Table of Contents Like This Report? Share it! Tweet Like Share reports.informationweek.com reports cians to connect to their EHR on their iPad. Care provisioning is just sitting on a stack of priorities.” Chilmark has released a new report, however, predicting that this won’t be the case for much longer. The firm’s reasoning is that the burgeoning accountable care organizations will have an urgent need to contain costs by improving population health, and there’s no way they can do that without engaging patients. “This use of mobile health [for care provisioning] is very small and inconsequential right now,” Moore says. “But over the next two or three years, it will pick up steam. Then, with the ACO payment models coming into full swing in 2015-2016, everything really begins to pop.” By 2017, Moore predicts, this sector of mobile health could be worth $1.1 billion. Kaushal foresees a convergence among health IT, mobile devices, and healthcare delivery. Instead of just focusing on moving data around, he says, providers are looking for solutions so they can get paid in an outcomes-based world. “Mobility is an integral How Mobilit y, Apps and BYOD Will Transform Healthc are part of that solution, but it’s not a solution in itself,” he says. 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Emerging Wireless Technology in the Healthcare Industry
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Introduction
The wireless technology involves the use of mobile gadgets to facilitate the carrying out
of particular services (Terry, 2012). It is usually important since it enables an individual to deal
with issues that are geographically away from them without the need to travel. In the healthcare
industry, this technology has been popular among medical organizations since it assists the staff
to deal with hospital and patient issues while still away from the organizations. Patients have also
utilized the technology with the aim of accessing healthcare information as well as the physicians
without the need to travel to the hospitals. Therefore, wireless technology is important to the
healthcare industry as it enables the efficient provision of medical services to the patients without
the need to visit a hospital.
Current and Emerging Wireless Medical Technologies
There are various mobile health applications known as standalone that are used by the
patients. This is with the intention of trailing their diets, exercise, wellness, and fitness.
Conditions like hypertension and diabetes are also illnesses that require these applications in
order to control them without the need to visit the health institutions. However, the capability of
the applications dealing with the chronic conditions is restricted since they require the input of
the medical practitioners. This means that the physicians will require to obtain the data from
these applications, process it, and address the issue represented by the data.
There is also a tendency of home monitoring which involves the use of wireless
technology. This is a special kind of remote patient checking since it is...


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