Handbook of Digital Homecare: Successes and Failures (Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics 3)

This second volume of the “Handbook of Digital Homecare” reviews the attempts to develop new ICT services for digital homecare, i.e. services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices. The book highlights the successful projects as well as failures of Digital homecare and provides several “lessons learned” to the wide audience of Health and ICT professionals. Front Matter....Pages i-vi A High Road to Dutch Healthcare Reform....Pages 1-14 The Epilepsy Project in the Republic of Ireland: Lessons for Digital Homecare....Pages 15-30 The Videocommunication to Support Care Delivery to Independently Living Seniors....Pages 31-42 Establishing an Infrastructure for Telecare: Combining the Socio-Technical and the Clinical....Pages 43-66 Application of Teleophthalmology in Screening and Monitoring of Elderly Population in Rural Areas in Lithuania....Pages 67-87 Implementation of Mobile Computing in Canadian Homecare Programs: Project Risk Management and its Influence on Project Success....Pages 89-113 AAL+: Continuous Institutional and Home Care Through Wireless Biosignal Monitoring Systems....Pages 115-142 Home Medication Management by Videophone: Translation from Pilot Project to Integrated Service....Pages 143-165 The Introduction of Activity Monitoring as Part of Care Delivery to Independently Living Seniors....Pages 167-179 A Retrospective View of a Rehabilitation Homecare Scenario for Cardiac Patients....Pages 181-196 An Intelligent Multi-Agent Memory Assistant....Pages 197-221 About Motivated Project Teams, User Expectations, Proof-of-Concept Testing and the After-a-Good-Project-Hang-Over....Pages 223-245