2019
Esteves, M.; Esteves, M.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.
A proof of concept of a mobile health application to support professionals in a portuguese nursing home Journal Article
Em: Sensors (Switzerland), vol. 19, não 18, 2019, ISSN: 14248220, (cited By 6).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Competitive intelligence; Decision making; Hospitals; Information analysis; mHealth; Nursing, Databases, Decision making process; Elders; Health informations; Health professionals; Mobile Health (M-Health); Mobile health application; Nursing homes; Technological improvements, factual database; health care delivery; health care personnel; human; injury; medical information; medical record; mobile application; nursing home; organization and management; point of care system; Portugal; professional standard; proof of concept, Factual; Delivery of Health Care; Health Communication; Health Personnel; Humans; Medical Records; Mobile Applications; Nursing Homes; Point-of-Care Systems; Portugal; Professional Role; Proof of Concept Study; Wounds and Injuries, Home health care
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Over the past few years, the rapidly aging population has been posing several challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Consequently, in Portugal, nursing homes have been getting a higher demand, and health professionals working in these facilities are overloaded with work. Moreover, the lack of health information and communication technology (HICT) and the use of unsophisticated methods, such as paper, in nursing homes to clinically manage residents lead to more errors and are time-consuming. Thus, this article proposes a proof of concept of a mobile health (mHealth) application developed for the health professionals working in a Portuguese nursing home to support them at the point-of-care, namely to manage and have access to information and to help them schedule, perform, and digitally record their tasks. Additionally, clinical and performance business intelligence (BI) indicators to assist the decision-making process are also defined. Thereby, this solution aims to introduce technological improvements into the facility to improve healthcare delivery and, by taking advantage of the benefits provided by these improvements, lessen some of the workload experienced by health professionals, reduce time-waste and errors, and, ultimately, enhance elders’ quality of life and improve the quality of the services provided. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Esteves, M.; Esteves, M.; Abelha, A.; Machado, J.
A mobile health application to assist health professionals: A case study in a Portuguese nursing home Proceedings Article
Em: M., Maciaszek L. Maciaszek L. Ziefle (Ed.): pp. 338-345, SciTePress, 2019, ISBN: 9789897583681, (cited By 3; Conference of 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2019 ; Conference Date: 2 May 2019 Through 4 May 2019; Conference Code:148435).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Elders; Ethical issues; Health informations; Health professionals; Nursing homes, Hand held computers; Hospitals; mHealth; Nursing, Home health care
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abstract = {The rapidly aging population has been a matter of concern over years since this problematic has been posing several challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. In Portugal, which is one of the countries with the largest aging population, nursing homes have been getting a higher demand, and health professionals are overloaded with work. Furthermore, the fact that few nursing homes use health information and communication technology (ICT) resorting to paper to record information and clinically manage their residents is a tremendous problem, since this method is more prone to errors and time-consuming. Thus, this paper proposes the design and development of a mobile application for health professionals working in a Portuguese nursing home with the intention of assisting them at the point-of-care, by recording and providing all the necessary information, and helping them to schedule, perform, and digitally record their tasks. This solution will help health professionals to provide better care, by reducing time-waste and errors, and, consequently, to improve elders' quality of life. A mobile solution was chosen since a hand-held device, which can be used anywhere and anytime, is able to give access and store all the needed information at the point-of-care. Copyright © 2019 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved},
note = {cited By 3; Conference of 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, ICT4AWE 2019 ; Conference Date: 2 May 2019 Through 4 May 2019; Conference Code:148435},
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The rapidly aging population has been a matter of concern over years since this problematic has been posing several challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. In Portugal, which is one of the countries with the largest aging population, nursing homes have been getting a higher demand, and health professionals are overloaded with work. Furthermore, the fact that few nursing homes use health information and communication technology (ICT) resorting to paper to record information and clinically manage their residents is a tremendous problem, since this method is more prone to errors and time-consuming. Thus, this paper proposes the design and development of a mobile application for health professionals working in a Portuguese nursing home with the intention of assisting them at the point-of-care, by recording and providing all the necessary information, and helping them to schedule, perform, and digitally record their tasks. This solution will help health professionals to provide better care, by reducing time-waste and errors, and, consequently, to improve elders' quality of life. A mobile solution was chosen since a hand-held device, which can be used anywhere and anytime, is able to give access and store all the needed information at the point-of-care. Copyright © 2019 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved
2018
Esteves, M.; Miranda, F.; Machado, J.; Abelha, A.
Mobile collaborative augmented reality and business intelligence: A system to support elderly people’s self-care Proceedings Article
Em: H., Rocha A. Costanzo S. Adeli (Ed.): pp. 195-204, Springer Verlag, 2018, ISSN: 21945357, (cited By 14; Conference of 6th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2018 ; Conference Date: 27 March 2018 Through 29 March 2018; Conference Code:212469).
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Etiquetas: Augmented reality; Competitive intelligence; Data warehouses; Hospitals; Information analysis; Information systems; Information use; mHealth; Nursing; Telemedicine, Collaborative learning; Elderly people; Health informations; Nursing homes; Self-care; Telenursing, Home health care
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abstract = {The ageing of the population increases the number of elderly people dependent in self-care. Thus, being dependent in a home context is a fact that deserves attention from social support entities integrated into the community, such as nursing homes. In this sense, this study is aimed at elderly dependent people in self-care, their caregivers, and members of nursing teams, and emerged to ensure predominantly the continuity of care of patients from Portuguese nursing homes and to strengthen the communication strategies between the different elements of the target audience. Therefore, at this stage of the project, the design of a preliminary archetype of a mobile collaborative augmented reality and business intelligence system is proposed, which main objectives are to accompany, teach, and share information between its users. It will be a reinforcement, that is, a way to promote and complete the knowledge and skills to deal with patients’ health. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.},
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The ageing of the population increases the number of elderly people dependent in self-care. Thus, being dependent in a home context is a fact that deserves attention from social support entities integrated into the community, such as nursing homes. In this sense, this study is aimed at elderly dependent people in self-care, their caregivers, and members of nursing teams, and emerged to ensure predominantly the continuity of care of patients from Portuguese nursing homes and to strengthen the communication strategies between the different elements of the target audience. Therefore, at this stage of the project, the design of a preliminary archetype of a mobile collaborative augmented reality and business intelligence system is proposed, which main objectives are to accompany, teach, and share information between its users. It will be a reinforcement, that is, a way to promote and complete the knowledge and skills to deal with patients’ health. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.