Some important aspects of Medical and Nursing House Call sustaining Assisted Living of Ageing Population

Although the house call a decade ago was declared a vanishing practice, statistics show an upwelling of home visits by physicians, in the developed countries, during the last ten years. A major reason for this is the radical alteration of the contents of the physicians’ black bag that beyond the stethoscope includes also, a Personal Digital Assistant with embedded Cellphone safekeeping detailed patient-records, sophisticated point-of-care diagnostic equipment and reagents, along with other technical means, that allow for providing care, comparable to that of an emergency room, at home. It is the purpose of the present study to to present the technical and managerial means we have developed, in order to support the adaptation of an ancient medical ritual and a traditional intervention mode, to the 21st Century managed care needs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DAGSTUHL
• Authors: Basile Spyropoulos, Aris Tzavaras, Maria Botsivaly, Manolis Moschidis, Konstantina Mertika, Periklis Sochos, Kostas Koutsourakis
• Keywords: DAGSTUHL 2007, Personal Digital Assistant, Point-of-care Diagnostic Equipment, Software Engineering, Traditional Intervention Mode