Home telehealth : connecting care within the community

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Home telehealth : connecting care within the community

edited by Richard Wootton, Susan L. Dimmick, Joseph C. Kvedar

Royal Society of Medicine Press, c2006

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Home Telehealth is the provision of high-quality care delivered by telecommunications to patients at home. It enables doctors and nurses to see, hear and talk to patients, take their vital signs and even conduct biochemical tests - all at a distance. The application of home telehealth allows for greater efficiency, increasing access to patients in remote regions at a lower cost and can also reduce hospitalisations. Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within the Community demonstrates how medicine can be applied to homecare and challenges clinicians to consider it in their everyday working practice. This book addresses the evidence-base, the techniques, applications and future implications. It draws together a wide range of topics, including smart homes, wound management, fall monitoring, quarantine applications, chronic disease management, child monitoring, home health monitoring and home dialysis. Written by experts from four continents, this book provides an informative and comprehensive review of best practice in the field. It should prove invaluable for medical practitioners of all kinds, for nurses, health service managers and IT staff.

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List of contributors Foreword by Val J. Halamandaris, President and CEO, National Association for Homecare and Hospice, Washington DC, US Preface 1. Introduction - Richard Wootton, Susan L. Dimmick, Joseph C. Kvedar SECTION 1: BASICS 2. Outcomes - Susan G. Slater, Laurie Neander, Dottie Fazenbaker 3. Economic evaluation - Paul A. Scuffham 4. Patient and provider satisfaction - Pamela Whitten, Alicia Bergman 5. Business models and return on investment - Herschel Peddicord, Karen R. Thomas, Allyson M. Beach 6. The evidence base - Mark Bensink, David Hailey, Richard Wootton SECTION 2: TECHNIQUES 7. Smart homes - Vincent Rialle, Pierre Rumeau, Catherine Ollivet, Christian Herve 8. Wound management - Christy M Williams, Kathy Duckett, Joseph Kvedar 9. Home telehealth for Veterans - Rita F. Kobb, Neale R. Chamber 10. Home-bound disease management - George Demiris 11. Fall monitoring - Simon Brownsell, Mark S. Hawley 12. Quarantine and isolation - Susan L. Dimmick, Kunka D. Ignatova SECTION 3: APPLICATION AREAS 13. HIV/AIDS - Cesar Caceres, Enrique J Gomez, M. Elena Hernando, Felipe Garcia, Francisco Del-Pozo 14. Home dialysis - Veli N. Stroetmann, Michael Nebel, Simon Robinson, Karl A. Stroetmann 15. Quality of care - Barbara Johnston, Sam G. Burgiss 16. Diabetes - Justin Starren, Ruth S. Weinstock, Walter Palmas, Roberto E. Izquierdo, Philip C. Moran, David Kaufman 17. Congestive heart failure - Penny Ford-Carleton, Nancy Lugn, Nhedti Colquitt, Marcia Reissig, Irene Higginson, Joseph C. Kvedar 18. Home telehealth monitoring - Shigeru Ohta, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Yoshimitsu Shinagawa, Toshio Kishimoto 19. Home-based telecardiology - Simonetta Scalvini, Emanuela Zanelli, Amerigo Giordano 20. Child monitoring - Andrea Tura, Luca Quareni 21. Palliative care - Marilynne A. Hebert, J.J. Jansen, Lynn Whitten 22. Remote asthma monitoring - Vedran Ostojic SECTION 4: The Future 23. Financial implications of widescale implementation of telecare - David A. Bradley, Simon Brownsell 24. Conclusion - Richard Wootton, Susan L. Dimmick, Joseph C. Kvedar Index

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