title: Exploring the new frontier: home care gets wired.
abstract: The driving forces toward adoption of TeleCare into the non-acute care setting are more compelling than ever before. The dramatic increase in our elderly population, which provides an endless consumer base, availability of functional and affordable technologies, and a national mandate to control costs of health care are forcing even the most skeptical health care decisionmakers to accept TeleCare as a standard model of care. Add to this the most severe nursing shortage to date and the formula is complete.
authors.affiliation: Barb.Johnston@kp.org
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Johnston
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D018581:Technology Transfer; D017216:Telemedicine; D014481:United States