RT Journal Article
T1 Telemedicine experience for chronic care in COPD
A1 Toledo Heras, María Paula de
A1 Jiménez Fernández, Silvia
A1 Pozo Guerrero, Francisco del
A1 Roca, Josep
A1 Alonso, Albert
A1 Hernández, Carmen
AB Information and telecommunication technologies are called to play a major role in the changes that healthcare systems have to face to cope with chronic disease. This paper reports a telemedicine experience for the home care of chronic patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and an integrated system designed to carry out this experience. To determine the impact on health, the chronic care telemedicine system was used during one year (2002) with 157 COPD patients in a clinical experiment; endpoints were readmissions and mortality. Patients in the intervention group were followed up at their homes and could contact the care team at any time through the call center. The care team shared a unique electronic chronic patient record (ECPR) accessible through the web-based patient management module or the home visit units. Results suggest that integrated home telemedicine services can support health professionals caring for patients with chronic disease, and improve their health.We have found that simple telemedicine services (ubiquitous access to ECPR, ECPR shared by care team, accessibility to case manager, problem reporting integrated in ECPR) can increase the number of patients that were not readmitted (51% intervention, 33% control), are acceptable to professionals, and involve low installation and exploitation costs. Further research is needed to determine the role of telemonitoring and televisit services for this kind of patients.
PB IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB IEEE Computer Society [Technical Co-Sponsor]
SN 1089-7771
YR 2006
FD 2006-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/10189
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/10189
LA eng
NO This work was supported in part by the European Union under Research Grant CHRONIC (Information Society Technologies, Vth framework programme) and in part by the Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs under Research Grant “Red de Telemedicina.”
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