title: Managing chronic disease through home telehealth.
abstract: This article describes the use of telehealth to monitor chronic illness in a home setting. It discusses the state of the art in commercial telehealth systems as well as 3 research projects undertaken by the University of Minnesota's program in health informatics that explore the potential of home telehealth to aid in care of patients with chronic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA.
authors.forename: Stanley M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Finkelstein
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ratner
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008910:Minnesota; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D019114:Remote Consultation; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D049269:Videoconferencing