This report introduces the ongoing collaborative effort to develop a framework for telepresence robots capable of remote physical interaction. The new system will improve homecare services by enabling professional operators to physically interact with patients or older adults to provide remote assistance. The available technology components required for the new framework are explained, and the ...

The aim of this article is to critically explore how formal and informal work practices interplay with gender in the shaping homecare service’s environments. An ethnomethodological view on doing applied combination theories about challenges relational work.The material drawn from two projects represented by (i) a cooperative inquiry Swedish environments, service workers first-line mangers (seve...

The first hour following the trauma is of crucial importance in trauma care. The sooner treatment begins, the better the ultimate outcome for the patient. Generally the initial treatment is handled by paramedical personnel arriving at the site of the accident with an ambulance. There is evidence to show that if the expertise of the on-site paramedic team can be supported by immediate and contin...

An aging population and an increase in chronically ill patients demand teamwork treatment models. To support these with information systems, interoperability is a prerequisite. Model-driven software development (MDSD) with special healthcare extensions can enable reuse of components and improve conformance to international standards. In this paper, a MDSD HealthCare Framework is proposed and de...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of an educational homecare program on pain relief in patients with advanced cancer. DESIGN Quasi-experimental (pretest post-test, nonequivalent group). SETTING Four community-based primary care centers providing social and healthcare services in the Quebec City region of Canada. SAMPLE 80 homecare patients with advanced cancer who were free of cogni...

OBJECTIVE To identify the barriers and facilitators for sustainability of tele-homecare programs implemented by home health nursing agencies for chronic disease management. DATA SOURCES English-language articles on home telehealth in the CINAHL, PubMed/MEDLINE, PsychInfo, Web of Science, and Cochrane Reviews databases published from January 1996 to December 2013. STUDY DESIGN We performed a...

Dependent people (especially the elderly) are nowadays surrounded by various health services, as well as by social and multi-technology monitoring devices. The PASPORD research project focuses on improving the management of processes involved in home care. These processes are known to be collaborative: their activities spread over different organizations, are carried out by diverse health or lo...

BACKGROUND Homecare is an important and effective way of managing chronic illnesses using skilled nursing care in the home. Unlike hospitals and ambulatory settings, clinicians visit patients at home at different times, independent of each other. Twenty-nine percent of 10,000 homecare agencies in the United States have adopted point-of-care EHRs. Yet, relatively little is known about the growin...

ICT are recognized as key opportunity to improve healthcare practices ,in the homecare domain particularly in relation to care interventions. However, despite all the advances accomplished in this field, a problem of coordination and continuity of personalized care remains. Given these needs, workflow management systems appear to be an appropriate tool for supporting the communication between t...

This paper examines transitions in living arrangement decisions of the seniors using the first six cycles of the Canadian longitudinal National Population Health Survey microdata. Transitions from independent to intergenerational and institutional living arrangements are uniquely analyzed using a discrete-time hazard rate multinomial logit modelling framework and accounted for unobserved indivi...