title: Trials and tribulations: a small pilot telehealth home care program for medicare patients.
abstract: This article describes a home care agency's experience initiating the technology of a telehealth program for a selected view of its home care patients. The goal of the telehealth program was to improve patient outcomes by augmenting patients' regularly scheduled in-home skilled nursing visits with video-conferencing encounters. Patient selection, costs, projected savings, patient satisfaction, and the technical, clinical, and patient problems with the telehealth system are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Nursing and Home care in Wilton, Conneticut, USA.
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Coleman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003237:Connecticut; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States