title: The Role of Nurses in E-Health: The MobiGuide Project Experience.
abstract: Leveraging the experience of the European project MobiGuide, this paper elaborates on the nurses' role in developing, delivering and evaluating e-health based services. We focus on the home monitoring of atrial fibrillation. Patients enrolled in our study are provided with a smartphone and an ECG sensor, and receive recommendations, reminders and alerts concerning medications and measurements that they should perform through a mobile decision support system that is constantly updated by a backend system. Patients' data are sent to health care personnel that may visualize them, and act accordingly. Nurses play a central role in such setting. After being involved in the design of the caregiver interface, they are responsible for the patients' enrollment phase (which includes patients' training), for the daily checking of incoming data, for the triage of patients' complaints, and for the final phase of the study where patients are interviewed about their experience with the system.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Electrical, Computers and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Enea
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Parimbelli
authors.affiliation: IRCCS Foundation S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sacchi
authors.affiliation: IRCCS Foundation S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Roxana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Budasu
authors.affiliation: IRCCS Foundation S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Napolitano
authors.affiliation: Dept. Information systems, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Mor
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peleg
authors.affiliation: Dept. Electrical, Computers and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Silvana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quaglini
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000451:nursing*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D024802:Nurse's Role; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012648:Self Care; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data