Title :
REALITY in Home Telecare: A Systemic Approach to Evaluation
Author :
Carson, E.R. ; Cramp, D.G. ; Flowerday, A. ; Harrar, H. ; Harvey, F.E. ; Leicester, H.J. ; Roudsari, A.V.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Health Informatics, City Univ., London
Abstract :
This paper describes the REALITY telecare system, designed to enable a range of commonly occurring chronic diseases to be managed in the home setting. This uses hand-held computers linked to the internet for collecting and transmitting clinical and quality of life data and providing remote clinical advice. Key to the success of such telecare is a proper scheme of evaluation. An overall framework for such evaluation is proposed. Within this schema formative evaluation results are presented, focusing particularly on technical issues being addressed, patient recruitment and retention, and data collection. User acceptability is then considered as a first ingredient of summative evaluation
Keywords :
Internet; diseases; medical computing; notebook computers; telemedicine; REALITY telecare system; diseases; hand-held computers; home telecare; internet; patient recruitment; patient retention; Biomedical informatics; Biosensors; Databases; Diabetes; Diseases; Hospitals; Hypertension; ISO standards; Recruitment; Telematics; Chronic disease management; evaluation; home telecare;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1615320
