Advanced Home Healthcare Environment

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Research Group

• Leili Lind
• Daniel Karlsson
• Hans Åhlfeldt

Project goal

To gain knowledge on how IT systems can increase the quality of care in home care and to show the possibilities of using IT systems in geographically distributed care.

Background

In the case of patients given treatment within the walls of the hospital, the control of vital parameters is facilitated by the fact that the patient is almost always readily available. The patients can be controlled with respect to objective status parameters such as body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, etc. as well as with respect to subjective parameters, i.e. symptoms, such as pain, tiredness, or well-being. On the other hand, patients receiving care in the home are geographically separated from the healthcare-providing organization, making status and symptom control harder. A key to status and symptom control is status parameter measurement and symptom assessment. Here, IT systems allowing measurement and assessment in the home could increase the possibilities of status and symptom control by increasing the availability of status measurements and symptom assessments.

Activities

• Development of status control application for acute and non-acute scenarios inculding the adaptation of a mobile meassurement unit for patien/next-of-kin use
• Ongoing analysis of results of a field trial of symptom assessment application at University Hospital of Linköping

Documents

• Project outline (in Swedish)
• Master's Thesis report, Li Hallgren, "Use of digital pen technologies in home health care, Scenarios and investigation of the Anoto technology" (490 KB)
• Master's Thesis report, Thobias Ålund, "Application Development for Advanced Home Health Care" (2 889 KB)
• Master's Thesis report, Kristoffer Berggren, "Application Development for Hospital-based Home Care Using Anoto Functionality and OSGi" (646 KB)
• Master's Thesis report, Jeanette Nordberg, "Gränssnitt för mobil övervakning inom hemsjukvård" (in Swedish) (3 282 KB)
  Addendum to Master's Thesis report concerning the use of vital signs monitoring in the home (in Swedish) (14 KB)