Patient satisfaction with TeleHomeCare

Author

Veen, M. ; Finkelstein, SM ; Speedie, S. ; Lundgren, JM

Author_Institution

Dept. of Lab. Medicine & Pathology, Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1845

Abstract

Home health care is facing many challenges as it attempts to provide high quality care for a growing population within a limited budget. We used telemedicine in home care to show that low-cost, standards-based videoconferencing and Internet access can provide home care without compromising outcome, quality of care and patient satisfaction. This study showed that fewer patients were discharged to a hospital or a nursing home when they had received telehome care. In addition, study patients using home monitoring equipment were more satisfied with the health care they received.

Keywords

Internet; health care; patient care; teleconferencing; telemedicine; Internet access; TeleHomeCare; care quality; growing population; home monitoring equipment; hospital; limited budget; low-cost; nursing home; patient satisfaction; standards-based videoconferencing; telehome care; Biomedical monitoring; Cameras; Condition monitoring; Instruments; Internet; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Teleconferencing; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053056

Filename

1053056