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Designing HeartCare: custom computerized home care for patients recovering from CABG surgery.

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: With the current trend toward discharge of cardiac artery bypass graft (CABG) patients from the hospital after 5 days, clinicians must make effective use of existing computer technology to provide more efficiently the services once available during the patient's lengthier hospital stay. This paper describes the design of the HeartCare initiative, a computerized cardiac recovery service designed to provide home-care support for patients in the first three months following CABG surgery. Capitalizing on the expansion in health resources on the Internet, and building on the lessons from the ComputerLink projects, HeartCare will employ the World Wide Web platform in the generation of personalized in-home computerized access to recovery resources. Key implementation decisions include selection of WebTV/ as the home-based device, and application of Metadata to organizing health-related knowledge resources on the WWW.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: P F Brennan, B Caldwell, S M Moore, N Sreenath, J Jones

Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Language: English

Topic: Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Award: MEDICINE AND SOCIETY IN WURTTEMBERG, 1730-1830