Taking to the Streets

Taking health care to the streets.

Taking it to the streets: delivering on deployment.

From inception to deployment, the Wait Time Information System (WTIS) project faced significant challenges associated with time, scope and complexity. It involved not only the creation and deployment of two large-scale province-wide systems (the WTIS and Ontario's Client Registry/Enterprise Master Patient Index) within aggressive time frames, but also the active engagement of 82 Ontario hospita...

Taking to the streets: the terry fox run for cuban cancer research.

"Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me,"[1] said Terry Fox as he ran across Canada. Little did the young athlete know that nearly 30 years after uttering these determined words, the world would continue, unflaggingly, to run, walk, cycle, and skate to raise money for cancer research. Ultimately, Terry didn't finish, forced to abandon his "Marathon...

A Patient-Centered Transitional Care Case Management Program: Taking Case Management to the Streets and Beyond.

BACKGROUND In 2011, the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, VA, had a cumulative readmission rate and emergency department (ED) revisits for discharged Veterans of 1 in 5. In 2012, a transitional care program (TCP) was implemented to improve care coordination and outcomes among Veterans, with an emphasis on geriatric patients with chronic disease. Th...

Taking It to the Streets: How Virtual Reality Can Change Mobile Computing

Virtual reality has long been an indoor affair. Whether constrained by stationary computers or displays, or by the limitations of our tracking technologies, researchers typically build virtual environments that work within a single physical room or a portion of a room. Even distributed virtual reality systems usually interconnect two or more such indoor spaces. Meanwhile, as computers grow ever...