Managing chronic disease through home telehealth.
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.
Finkelstein
Stanley M
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Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA.
Ratner
Edward
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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