A Prototype of Electronic Home Care Visit Platform: Nurse's e-Bag
Yaw-Jen Lin, Mei-Ju Su, Chia‐Hui Chen, Heng‐Shuen Chen, Jin‐Shin Lai · Medinfo 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems · 2007
In this study, an electronic home care visit platform: Nurse's e-Bag integrating popular distributed technologies, mobile hardware, and bio sensor was developed. This implementation is based on the service model of the home care center at National Taipei College of Nursing(NTCN) Hospital, which is one of the branch hospitals of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and serves as the disposition and case management for long term care. For enhancing the efficiency and quality care for home visiting nurses, e-Bag was introduced to integrate with a mobile electronic home care records system and become one application part of NTUH U-Care system and also an electronic home care visit platform. Light weighted Nurse's e-Bag not only reduces the loading comparing to the traditional home healthcare, but also provides the teleconsultation when home visiting nurse encounters problems at the patient's home.