Pervasive healthcare and wireless health monitoring
Mobile Networks and Applications
Use of a smartphone for improved self-management of pulmonary rehabilitation
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications - Regular issue
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications - Pervasive Health Care Services and Technologies
Computers in Biology and Medicine
A context-aware service platform to support continuous care networks for home-based assistance
UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: ambient interaction
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Design of a decision-support architecture for management of remotely monitored patients
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications - Special issue on healthcare applications and services in converged networking environments
The adoption of mobile healthcare by hospital's professionals: An integrative perspective
Decision Support Systems
Novel recovery mechanism for the restoration of image contents in teleconsultation sessions
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Pervasive Computing for Hospital, Chronic, and Preventive Care
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Deploying intelligent e-health services in a mobile gateway
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Information and telecommunication technologies are called to play a major role in the changes that healthcare systems have to face to cope with chronic disease. This paper reports a telemedicine experience for the home care of chronic patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and an integrated system designed to carry out this experience. To determine the impact on health, the chronic care telemedicine system was used during one year (2002) with 157 COPD patients in a clinical experiment; endpoints were readmissions and mortality. Patients in the intervention group were followed up at their homes and could contact the care team at any time through the call center. The care team shared a unique electronic chronic patient record (ECPR) accessible through the web-based patient management module or the home visit units. Results suggest that integrated home telemedicine services can support health professionals caring for patients with chronic disease, and improve their health. We have found that simple telemedicine services (ubiquitous access to ECPR, ECPR shared by care team, accessibility to case manager, problem reporting integrated in ECPR) can increase the number of patients that were not readmitted (51% intervention, 33% control), are acceptable to professionals, and involve low installation and exploitation costs. Further research is needed to determine the role of telemonitoring and televisit services for this kind of patients