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Telemedicine Follow Up of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Integrated into a Patient-Centered Health Care Team-Setting Impacts on Patient Empowerment and Safety

Berglind SmaradottirRune FensliFrode GallefossInger-alice Naley Aas

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Coping (psychology)TeamworkPopulation ageingTelemedicine020205 medical informaticsbusiness.industryPatient Empowermentmedia_common.quotation_subject02 engineering and technologyPeer review03 medical and health sciencesPatient safety0302 clinical medicineNursingHealth care0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringMedicine030212 general & internal medicinebusinessmedia_common

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Health care services are facing challenges with a growing ageing population prone to chronic conditions and multi-morbidities. Telemedicine applications have the potential to enhance patient’s safety at home by monitoring of chronic diseases, promoting coping and independence. The research project Patients and Professionals in Productive Teams aims to study patient-centered teamwork across organizational borders, supported by technology. This paper describes the research agenda for a study on how telemedicine follow-up impacts on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients’ quality of life and possible effects on patient empowerment, in the health region of Southern Norway. The outcome is expected to describe how telemedicine can be carried out and implemented in daily routines together with a patient-centred health care team with the aim to increase patient safety.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2017-12-012017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)
https://doi.org/10.1109/csci.2017.311