Utility of mass-market technologies to enable care provided by laypersons in the home environment

Author

Tran, B.Q. ; Kinsella, A. ; Winters, J. ; Thiel, L. ; Prandoni, C. ; Hughes, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Tele-consultation systems for evaluating support of the caregivers of stroke patients are currently being evaluated by a team of engineers and clinicians at our institution. One proposed system utilizes low-cost commercial tele-conferencing and vital signs monitoring solutions to improve access to care for in-home stroke patients and to provide educational and training support for their caregivers. Preliminary assessment of existing equipment indicates that quality of care for patients and caregiver support may be limited by the bandwidth of conventional telephone lines, but can be improved with increasing data transmission speeds

Keywords

biomedical communication; biomedical education; geriatrics; health care; patient monitoring; teleconferencing; telemedicine; care; caregivers; clinicians; conventional telephone line bandwidth; data transmission speeds; educational support; engineers; home environment; in-home stroke patients; laypersons; low-cost commercial tele-conferencing; mass-market technologies; quality of care; stroke patients; support evaluation; tele-consultation systems; training support; vital signs monitoring solutions; Bandwidth; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Data communication; Image resolution; Patient monitoring; TV; Teleconferencing; Telephony; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803870

Filename

803870