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During the late 1990s, the U.S. government instituted an interim payment system (IPS) to constrain Medicare home health care expenditures. Previous research has focused largely on the implications of the IPS for Medicare patients; this study broadens the analysis to consider patients with other payer sources. Using the National Home and Hospice Care Survey, we found similar effects of the IPS a...

In this study, the association between Medicare regulations and the provision of public home health care is examined. Medicare clients were compared with non-Medicare groups of those 65 years of age or over and those under 65. Results suggested that both age- and payer-related factors contribute to utilization of services. Older patients showed greater need for chronic illness care relative to ...

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line ethical issues in home health care book, as the world window, as ma...

The authors describe a proposed project in which they are developing a methodology for designing ubicomp as a privacy-enhancing technology for family caregiving in home health care. The paper discusses privacy in ubicomp as a design, social, technical, and policy issue; outlines research challenges presented by the technical and social dimensions of using sensor networks as a monitoring technol...

Home health care is a rapidly growing and diversified in­ dustly At the 1988 annual conference of the National Associa­ tion of Home Care, however, the most frequent comment heard by American Occupational Therapy Asso­ ciation (AOTA) representatives was that occupational therapy is the most underutilized service in home health care. The primary reasons given for the underutilization of occupati...

OBJECTIVE This article explores whether the formal home health care (HHC) market is equitable or manifests unexplained racial disparities in use. METHODS The database is the 1994 National Long Term Care Survey. We estimate logit regression models with a race dummy variable, race interaction terms, and stratification by race. We apply the Oaxaca decomposition technique to quantify whether the ...

We propose a new home health care network for the acquisition and transmission of data from ordinary home health care appliances based on IEEE11073. In this study, we develop a standard protocol for data collection and a simple interface to accommodate different monitoring systems that make use of different data protocols. The system provides for one-way data transmission, thus saving power and...

Adelaide Ippolito, PhD, consultant, Formez PA, Rome, Italy; Silvia Boni, Dr., head, Health Organization and Social Policy Unit, Formez PA, Rome; Ettore Cinque, professor of accounting, Second University of Naples, Italy, and former acting subcommissioner for health services, Campania Region, Italy; Annarita Greco, Dr., public servant, Health and Social Interventions Unit, Campania Region, Naple...