Health monitoring and healthcare provisioning at home (i.e., outside the hospital) have received increasingly attention as a possible and partial solution for addressing the problems of an aging population. There are still many technological issues that need to be solved before home healthcare systems can be really cost-effective and efficient. However, in this paper we will highlight another c...

This paper proposed the Ubiquitous Healthcare System using context information for the personalized healthcare services in a home network environment. The context information is generated by location, health and home environment information collected from sensors/devices equipped in home. This system is designed on the Distributed Object Group Framework (DOGF) supporting the interfaces for invo...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify the effects of community-based home healthcare projects that influence service performances with regard to Korean national long-term care insurance services in older adults. METHODS The project's applicants were 18 operational agencies in national long-term care institutions in Korea, and participants were care recipients (n = 2263) registered ...

Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a growing population of diagnostically heterogeneous children characterized by chronic conditions affecting multiple organ systems, the use of medical technology at home as well as intensive healthcare service utilization. Many of these children will experience either a respiratory-related complication and/or they will become established on respiratory...

This paper presents a study of the comparison of different healthcare services to identify the characteristics and of a pervasive and ubiquitous healthcare system which is described as the healthcare provided for home based and moving patients that could enable remote and continuous monitoring and medical services anywhere and anytime. The study has identified the different classification of he...

OBJECTIVE To analyze home care practices of outpatient and hospital services and their constitution as a substitute healthcare network. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study was carried out using tracer methodology to analyze four outpatient home care services from the Municipal Health Department and one service from a philanthropic hospital in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Sout...

Rethinking Healthcare Safety for Home Care Canada’s aging population and rising healthcare costs have resulted in an increased number of chronically ill people and heightened demand for acute care. As a result, a growing group of clients is being cared for at home by family and friends, and there has been a 51% increase in home care clients since 1997 (Canadian Home Care Association 2008). Many...

1. Introduction Among many other countries, Sweden is undergoing hospital restructuring by reducing the number of hospital beds and increasing the proportion of home healthcare. By moving the routine medical check and other healthcare services from hospital to the home environment, the limited hospital resources can be released to the people with urgent needs. Especially in the background of gl...