Requirements and prototyping of a home health care application based on emerging JAVA technology.
IT support for home health care is an expanding area within health care IT development. Home health care differs from other in- or outpatient care delivery forms in a number of ways, and thus, the introduction of home health care applications must be based on a rigorous analysis of necessary requirements to secure safe and reliable health care. This article reports early experiences from the development of a home health care application based on emerging JAVA technologies. A prototype application for the follow-up of diabetes patients is presented and discussed in relation to a list of general requirements on home health care applications.
Lind
Leili
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Division of Medical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, S-581 83, Linköping, Sweden. leili@imt.se
Sundvall
Erik
E
Karlsson
Daniel
D
Shahsavar
Nosrat
N
Ahlfeldt
Hans
H
D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; D017028:Caregivers; D040421:Cell Phone; D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D034742:Electronic Mail; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008838:Microcomputers; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation