Developing Pervasive e-Heatth for Moving Experts from Hospital to Home
Jane Clemensen, Simon Bo Larsen, Jakob E. Bardram · IADIS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON WWW/INTERNET · 2004
This paper presents a project on treating diabetic patients with foot ulcers at home. There is a great potential for a better treatment of patients with ulcers at home while obtaining substantial cost-savings. The project investigates whether pervasive computing has something to add in a telemedical setting, where the patient and the home care nurse is communicating with the expert at the hospital. Methods of user-centered design is applied and presented. The overall design principles for enabling cooperation between patients and residential nurses at home and ulcer experts at the hospital are presented, and the current status of the technical implementation is outlined.