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Handbook of Digital Homecare

Successes and Failures

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Editors:
  1. Lodewijk Bos

    1. Care Compunetics (ICMCC), International Council on Medical &, Utrecht, Netherlands

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  2. Adrie Dumay

    1. TNO/TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

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  3. Leonard Goldschmidt

    1. Veterans Affairs, Medical Informatics, United States Department of, Palo Alto, USA

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  4. Griet Verhenneman

    1. Technology, Research Unit Law and Information, Leuven, Belgium

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  5. Kanagasingam Yogesan

    1. Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and, "Health Sciences; Centre for e-Health", University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

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  • Collects Medical and Biological Engineering Contributions on the Safety and Security of Individuals and Society
  • Written by very renowned scientists from Biomedical Engineering and Medical
  • Informatics Recounts and memorializes the enormous personal and scientific achievements of Swamy Laxminarayan

Part of the book series: Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics (CMCC, volume 3)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. A High Road to Dutch Healthcare Reform

    • A. C. M. Dumaij, R. Mooij, J. L. T. Blank
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Epilepsy Project in the Republic of Ireland: Lessons for Digital Homecare

    • Malcolm J. Fisk
    Pages 15-30

  4. The Videocommunication to Support Care Delivery to Independently Living Seniors

    • Charles G. Willems, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Loek A. van der Heide, Luc P. de Witte, John Rietman
    Pages 31-42

  5. Establishing an Infrastructure for Telecare: Combining the Socio-Technical and the Clinical

    • Giovanni Rinaldi, Mike Martin, Antonio Gaddi
    Pages 43-66

  6. Application of Teleophthalmology in Screening and Monitoring of Elderly Population in Rural Areas in Lithuania

    • A. Paunksnis, V. Barzdziukas, R. Gricius, D. Buteikiene, P. Treigys, S. Kopsala et al.
    Pages 67-87

  7. Implementation of Mobile Computing in Canadian Homecare Programs: Project Risk Management and its Influence on Project Success

    • Claude Sicotte, Guy Paré
    Pages 89-113

  8. AAL+: Continuous Institutional and Home Care Through Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Systems

    • Hugo Silva, Susana Palma, Hugo Gamboa
    Pages 115-142

  9. Home Medication Management by Videophone: Translation from Pilot Project to Integrated Service

    • Victoria A. Wade, Angela Littleford, Debbie Kralik
    Pages 143-165

  10. The Introduction of Activity Monitoring as Part of Care Delivery to Independently Living Seniors

    • Charles G. Willems, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Loek A. van der Heide, Luc P. de Witte, John Rietman
    Pages 167-179

  11. A Retrospective View of a Rehabilitation Homecare Scenario for Cardiac Patients

    • Oliver Koslowski, Myriam Lipprandt, Clemens Busch, Marco Eichelberg, Frerk Müller, Detlev Willemsen et al.
    Pages 181-196

  12. An Intelligent Multi-Agent Memory Assistant

    • Ângelo Costa, Paulo Novais
    Pages 197-221

  13. About Motivated Project Teams, User Expectations, Proof-of-Concept Testing and the After-a-Good-Project-Hang-Over

    • Piet Verhoeve, Ann Ackaert, Jan Van Ooteghem, Jeroen Hoebeke, Maarten Steenhuyse, An Jacobs et al.
    Pages 223-245
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About this book

This second volume of the “Handbook of Digital Homecare” reviews the attempts to develop new ICT services for digital homecare, i.e. services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices. The book highlights the successful projects as well as failures of Digital homecare and provides several “lessons learned” to the wide audience of Health and ICT professionals.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Care Compunetics (ICMCC), International Council on Medical &, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Lodewijk Bos

  • TNO/TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

    Adrie Dumay

  • Veterans Affairs, Medical Informatics, United States Department of, Palo Alto, USA

    Leonard Goldschmidt

  • Technology, Research Unit Law and Information, Leuven, Belgium

    Griet Verhenneman

  • Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and, "Health Sciences; Centre for e-Health", University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia

    Kanagasingam Yogesan

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