Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) communication has become the standard for communicating across disciplines. It has demonstrated its effectiveness at improving patient outcomes, enhancing patient and clinician satisfaction, and helping to control healthcare costs. It can help home healthcare clinicians with efforts to prevent avoidable hospitalizations. But how often and ho...

This paper presents an e-health mobile application, called DITIS, which supports networked collaboration for home healthcare. The system was originally developed with a view to address the difficulties of continuity of care and communication between the members of a home health care multidisciplinary team. The paper introduces the system DITIS, identifies the needs and challenges of co-ordinate...

HOME HEALTH CARE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE fastest-growing sectors in the health care industry, but the prevention of occupational exposures in this setting has not received the attention it deserves. Of the more than 8 million U.S. health care workers who work in hospitals and other health care settings1, between 650,000 and 850,000 are employed in home health care.2 There are few data and no nation...

T he monitoring of a patient’s blood glucose level is an important component of routine diabetes care. In home care and hospice patients, capillary blood is typically sampled using a fingerstick device and tested with a portable blood glucose meter. During this procedure, the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) can be easily transmitted if infection prevention and control procedures are not meticulously ad...

BACKGROUND Home delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by community health workers (CHWs) may improve ART retention by reducing the time burden and out-of-pocket expenditures to regularly attend an ART clinic. In addition, ART home delivery may shorten waiting times and improve quality of care for those in facility-based care by decongesting ART clinics. This trial aims to determine whether A...

Technological advancements have and will revolutionise the way healthcare and community based care is being delivered to the home environment. In this paper we provide the rationale for usage of temporal based reasoning for the purposes of distributed care and healthcare management. This is exemplified through identification of the role of temporal reasoning in addressing the important role tha...

The proactive development in electronic health (e-health) has introduced seemingly endless number of applications such as telemedicine, electronic records, healthcare score cards, healthcare monitoring etc. Yet, these applications confront the key challenges of network dependence and medical personnel necessity, which hinders the development of universality of e-health services. To mitigate suc...

This paper proposes a Human-centered Pervasive Computing System Model (HPC), a Layered Architectural Analysis and Design Method (LAAD) and a Waterfall Prototyping Process Model (WPP). Based on the HPC model and the LAAD method, a pervasive computing based multimodal tele-home healthcare system is designed and partly implemented using the Waterfall Prototyping Process. The design and implementat...

Modernization of medical healthcare system using technology has become an important in research direction today. Transforming healthcare so as to better meet the needs of patients will require changes to strengthen delivery of care for patients who already have a good access to services, as well as changes to improve care for patients who find it harder to get the care they need. Diagnosis is a...