title: Highly automated documentation for mobile medical services.
abstract: Mobile Medical Services, such as Home Care and EMS (Emergency Medical Services) are to the general public probably most visible part of public health care. A great amount of expectations are placed on the quality of care given by these units. Sometimes providing this care is very intensive and all available attention has to be placed on the patient. However, documenting the treatment is very valuable for the treatment of the patient later on. In this paper we present a system that automates many tasks in documenting the treatment. Furthermore, our system is capable of producing a far more detailed documentation that has been available before. This makes reliable research of mobile medical care possible and opens new possibilities in educating paramedics and nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Kuopio, POB 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland. mhassine@cs.uku.fi
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hassinen
authors.forename: Mikko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heinonen
authors.forename: Maija
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marttila-Kontio
authors.forename: Heli
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tervo
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D004282:Documentation; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008952:Mobile Health Units / Q000458:organization & administration*