Ubiquitous computing in shared-care environments.

Full Abstract

In light of future challenges, such as growing numbers of elderly, increase in chronic diseases, insufficient health care budgets and problems with staff recruitment for the health-care sector, information and communication technology (ICT) becomes a possible means to meet these challenges. Organizational changes such as the decentralization of the health-care system lead to a shift from in-hospital to both advanced and basic home health care. Advanced medical technologies provide solutions for distant home care in form of specialist consultations and home monitoring. Furthermore, the shift towards home health care will increase mobile work and the establishment of shared care teams which require ICT-based solutions that support ubiquitous information access and cooperative work. Clinical documentation and decision support systems are the main ICT-based solutions of interest in the context of ubiquitous computing for shared care environments. This paper therefore describes the prerequisites for clinical documentation and decision support at the point of care, the impact of mobility on the documentation process, and how the introduction of ICT-based solutions will influence organizations and people. Furthermore, the role of dentistry in shared-care environments is discussed and illustrated in the form of a future scenario.

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Author information

Author/s: Koch, S (S);

Affiliation: Centre for eHealth, Uppsala University, Sweden. Sabine.Koch(-atsign-)ehealth.uu.se

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: International journal of computerized dentistry (Int J Comput Dent), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jul; vol 9 (issue 3) : pp 219-26

Dates: Created 2006/12/29; Completed 2007/02/23;

PMID: 17194048, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Information Systems
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Monitoring, Physiologic
Patient Care Team
Point-of-Care Systems
Systems Integration
Technology, Medical
User-Computer Interface

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