Telehealth's New Horizon: Providing Smart Hospital-Level Care in the Home

The cost of providing home care

Although a key service in maintaining older people in their own homes, there is a dearth of good information about the unit costs of home care services in the public domain. In an effort to improve providers’ and commissioners’ understanding of the impact of contract requirements on the costs of providing care a study funded by the Department of Health was undertaken by Tribal Secta on behalf o...

The Lack of Systematic Training for Health Care Providers, A Challenge for Providing Pediatric Palliative Home Care: A Comparative Study

Background: The growing prevalence of chronic diseases in children has increased their need for palliative care. We aimed to compare pediatric palliative care and home care training in Iran and in the selected countries. Materials and Methods: This comparative study was conducted based on the classifications of palliative care for children and using databases such as Scopus, Science Direct, Ovi...

Providing HIV/TB Care At The Primary Health Care Level

SM4ALL: Smart Houses for home-care assistance

SM4All project investigates an innovative middleware platform for inter-working of smart embedded services in immersive and person-centric environments, through the use of composability and semantic techniques for dynamic service reconfiguration. By leveraging P2P technologies, the platform is inherently scalable and able to resist to devices’churn and failures, while preserving the privacy of ...

Hospital information technology in home care

The utilization of hospital information technology (HIT) as a tool for home care is a recent trend in health science. Subjects gaining benefits from this new endeavor include middle-aged individuals with serious chronic illness living at home. Published data on the utilization of health care information technology especially for home care in chronic illness patients have increased enormously in...