Keywords:
eHealth, Catheter arteriography, Catheter venography, Lymphography, Health policy and practice, Education, Economics, Quality assurance, Workforce
Authors:
V. Spyropoulos, A. Tzavaras, M. Botsivaly; Athens/GR
Purpose
The aim of this project was the development of a system,
focused on Post Interventional Radiology (PIR) patient-monitoring,
after discharge to home-care.
The system allows for quasi real-time vital- and audiovisual data monitoring and transmission over IP and patient-care management and documentation.
The driving forces for adopting decentralized systems of health care provision are:
- First,
the fusion of Biomedical Technology,
Informatics and Medical Decision-making into the modern Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS).
- Second,
the population ageing and the escalation of hospital costs.
Home-care and institutional Long Term Care (LTC),
is commonly applied as a formal care for the elderly population [1].
OECD data show that in 21 developed countries 8.2% and 4.0% of the people over sixty five years are receiving home-care and institutional LTC respectively [2].
One of the main problems arising with decentralized health care provision,
such as Home Care,
is the discontinuity of medical care [3].
This discontinuity appears not only in medical data transfer,
but also in the quality of medical supervision [4].