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mHealth Clinic Appointment PC Tablet: Implementation, Challenges and Solutions.
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- Using telehealth to assess depression and suicide ideation and provide mental health interventions to groups of chronically ill adolescents and young adults.Research in nursing & health · 2021Article
- Successful implementation of remote video consultations for patients receiving home parenteral nutrition in a national UK Centre.Frontline gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Using Telemedicine to Identify Depressive Symptomatology Rating Scale in a Home Parenteral Nutrition Population.Journal of technology in behavioral science · 2017Article
- Identification of Depressive Signs in Patients and Their Family Members During iPad-based Audiovisual Sessions.Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN · 2017Article
- A Clinical Trial of Translation of Evidence Based Interventions to Mobile Tablets and Illness Specific Internet Sites.International journal of sensor networks and data communications · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients requiring daily intravenous (IV) home parenteral nutrition (HPN) would benefit from in-home professional observation to improve self-care, to assess, detect and prevent serious complications.
aimsThe study aims are to assess the viability and utility of conducting mobile healthcare (mHealth) videoconference assessments with patients managing lifelong daily 12-hour IV nutrition infusions in their homes. The challenges and solutions to implementing mobile personal computer (PC) tablet based clinic appointments are described.
methodsA wireless Apple iPad Mini™ mobile touch-screen tablet computer with 5 mega-pixel camera was loaned to patients. Each tablet had Polycom RealPresence software and a fourth generation (4G) mobile telecommunications data plan. These supported audio-visual mobile videoconferencing encrypted connections between health professionals in their offices and HPN patients and their family members in their homes. Patients' and professionals' evaluations of their mHealth clinic experiences are collected.
resultsPatients (mean age = 41.9, SD = 2.8 years) had been prescribed 12-hour home parenteral nutrition (HPN) infusions daily due short bowel disorders. Patients had been on HPN from 1 to 10 years (M=4, SD=3.6). Evaluation of clinic appointments revealed that 100% of the patients (n=45) and the professionals (n=6) indicated that they can clearly hear and easily see one another. The mHealth audio-visual interactions were highly rated by patients and family members. Professionals highly rated their ability to obtain a medical history and visual inspection of patients. Several challenges were identified and recommendations for resolutions are described. DISCUSSION: All patients and professionals highly rated the iPad mHealth clinic appointments for convenience and ease of communicating between homes and offices. An important challenge for all mHealth visits is the clinical professional's ability to make clinically accurate judgments about what they observed and heard from the patients. Following our solutions for obtaining clear visuals with the iPad can improve ability to make clinical assessments.
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