Using Information and Communication Technology in Home Care for Communication between Patients, Family Members, and Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review

Lindberg, Birgitta; Nilsson, Carina; Zotterman, Daniel; Söderberg, Siv; Skär, Lisa

doi:10.1155/2013/461829

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“…The ICT in home care is mostly used as a tool for communication between healthcare professionals and patients or family members. Healthcare professionals can base on this result, advantageously use ICT applications in home care as a tool to support people living with chronic illnesses gaining control of their ailment that promotes self-care [13]. In addition, the e-health systems can have a beneficial impact on the process of clinical and home care in low-and middleincome countries [14].…”

Section: Obligation Of Home Care Education For Tracheostomymentioning

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Obligation of home care education for tracheostomy

Alam¹,

Rehana²,

Raied

2017

Saf Health

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Background: Patient education facilitates imparting information to the patients and their caregivers by the health professionals and others that alter the patients' health behaviors, improve their health status and upright health safety at home. It strengthens the clinician-patient relationship by demonstrating respect and enhances patients' feelings of self-efficacy resulting in improved health, well-being, safety, and outcomes. It plays a vital role to prevent deadly but easily manageable fatalities that have been occurring at home in patients with various medical devices for permanent disabilities. In this commentary, the obligation of pre-discharge patient education and ensuring standard care at home for the patients with a lifelong tracheostomy is emphasized in particular. Patients with irreversible airway compromise and bulbar paralysis due to various chronic, systemic and autoimmune diseases often have to continue with a lifelong tracheostomy. These patients require a cautious and meticulous home care of the tracheostomy tube and the stoma. A fatal incident that occurred recently and received in the emergency department is mentioned here. It happened due to the failure of a very simple management of tracheostomy complication at home. Conclusion: Many centers and hospitals have their integrated pre-discharge patient education program and checklist. This is particularly mandatory and warrants due attention in regard of sending a patient home with a tracheostomy. A brief span hands-on training and comprehensive educational materials are to be ensured sincerely. It is vital to have/organize the support of relatives or a companion. At least one individual ought to learn how to help the patient in case of emergency. That person should join the patient when he/she gets guidelines in the hospital. Medical information and communication technology and digital modules should also be made easily accessible and user-friendly to the mass people. Then only, this kind of shattering occurrences can be reduced at home settings.

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Section: Obligation Of Home Care Education For Tracheostomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Obligation of home care education for tracheostomy

Alam¹,

Rehana²,

Raied

2017

Saf Health

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“…Currently, healthcare providers have a seemingly infinite combination of graphic, textual, coded, statistically analyzed, collated, filtered, non-filtered and malleable data [23]. As a result, healthcare organizations endeavour to construct comprehensive summary views of patient's medical records.…”

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“…In a study undertaken by [23], an exhaustive survey was conducted for the use of ICT in healthcare. Here, definitions of tele-health and tele-medicine along with e-health and an appraisal of mechanisms to weigh the ICT interventions in health were discussed.…”

Section: Healthcare and Ictmentioning

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Cloud enabled data analytics and visualization framework for health-shocks prediction

Mahmud

Iqbal

Doctor

2016

Future Generation Computer Systems

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In this paper, we present a data analytics and visualization framework for health-shocks prediction based on large-scale health informatics dataset. The framework is developed using cloud computing services based on Amazon web services (AWS) integrated with geographical information systems (GIS) to facilitate big data capture, storage, index and visualization of data through smart devices for different stakeholders. In order to develop a predictive model for health-shocks, we have collected a unique data from 1000 households, in rural and remotely accessible regions of Pakistan, focusing on factors like health, social, economic, environment and accessibility to healthcare facilities. We have used the collected data to generate a predictive model of health-shock using a fuzzy rule summarization technique, which can provide stakeholders with interpretable linguistic rules to explain the causal factors affecting healthshocks. The evaluation of the proposed system in terms of the interpret-ability and accuracy of the generated data models for classifying health-shock shows promising results. The prediction accuracy of the fuzzy model based on a k-fold cross-validation of the data samples shows above 89% performance in predicting health-shocks based on the given factors.

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“…Several reviews have already proven and indicated the rising importance of the use of information technology (IT) in healthcare [4,5]. The past years, there has been an uptake in the use of personal, smart devices [6,7].…”

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The OCarePlatform: A context-aware system to support independent living

Backere

Bonte

Verstichel

et al. 2017

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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Background: Currently, healthcare services, such as institutional care facilities, are burdened with an increasing number of elderly people and individuals with chronic illnesses and a decreasing number of competent caregivers.Objectives: To relieve the burden on healthcare services, independent living at home could be facilitated, by offering individuals and their (in)formal caregivers support in their daily care and needs. With the rise of pervasive healthcare, new information technology solutions can assist elderly people ("residents") and their caregivers to allow residents to live independently for as long as possible.Methods: To this end, the OCarePlatform system was designed. This semantic, data-driven and cloud-based back-end system facilitates independent living by offering information and knowledge-based services to the resident and his/her (in)formal caregivers. Data and context information are gathered to realize context-aware and personalized services and to support residents in meeting their daily needs. This body of data, originating from heterogeneous data and information sources, is sent to personalized services, where is fused, thus creating an overview of the resident's current situation.Results: The architecture of the OCarePlatform is proposed, which is based on a service-oriented approach, together with its different components and their interactions. The implementation details are presented, together with a run- * Corresponding author; Tel: +32 9 331 49 38; Fax: +32 9 331 48 99Email addresses: femke.debackere@intec.ugent.be (F. De Backere), pieter.bonte@intec.ugent.be (P. Bonte), stijn.verstichel@intec.ugent.be (S. Verstichel), femke.ongenae@intec.ugent.be (F. Ongenae), filip.deturck@intec.ugent.be (F. De Turck) Preprint submitted to ElsevierNovember 25, 2016 ning example. A scalability and performance study of the OCarePlatform was performed. The results indicate that the OCarePlatform is able to support a realistic working environment and respond to a trigger in less than 5 seconds.The system is highly dependent on the allocated memory.Conclusions: The data-driven character of the OCarePlatform facilitates easy plug-in of new functionality, enabling the design of personalized, context-aware services. The OCarePlatform leads to better support for elderly people and individuals with chronic illnesses, who live independently.

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Using Information and Communication Technology in Home Care for Communication between Patients, Family Members, and Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review

Cited by 210 publications

References 114 publications

Obligation of home care education for tracheostomy

Obligation of home care education for tracheostomy

Cloud enabled data analytics and visualization framework for health-shocks prediction

The OCarePlatform: A context-aware system to support independent living

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