From telemedicine technology to telemedicine services

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    Abstract

    The aim of this study was to design and pilot test ICT-supported rehabilitation services across twelve health care institutions and four different diagnosis groups (i.e. acute hip, arthritis, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) starting from a multimodal service platform that offers four different telemedicine technologies: 1) teleconsultation, 2) activity coaching, 3) web-based exercising and 4) health monitoring. Results showed that using the same technologies, different telemedicine services can be developed with different clinical purposes. Results also show that different implementation strategies are needed for different patient groups, or even within different patient groups, to get the services implemented in everyday care. Evaluation of the ICT-supported rehabilitation services in everyday care showed that the ICT support is being accepted and highly used by the patient. However, the use of the ICT support by care professionals was dramatically low. Future studies should focus on full-scale implementation in clinical practice, on education of the health care professionals as well as large-scale trials.
    Original languageUndefined
    Title of host publicationREHAB '15 Proceedings of the 3rd 2015 Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques
    Place of PublicationNew York
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Pages113-117
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-3898-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 2015
    Event3rd 2015 Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal
    Duration: 1 Oct 20152 Oct 2015

    Publication series

    Name
    PublisherACM

    Conference

    Conference3rd 2015 Workshop on ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques, REHAB 2015
    Period1/10/152/10/15
    Other1-2 October 2015

    Keywords

    • EWI-26726
    • BSS-Technology supported cognitive training
    • IR-99203
    • Chronic disease
    • METIS-315545
    • Design
    • User-centric
    • Telemedicine
    • Implementation

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