A collaborative document repository for home care teams
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Workflow and Framework for Collecting and Implementing Point-of-Care Ultrasound Data in the Management of Heart Failure Patients
Published on: July 12, 2024
1Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Sasksatoon, Canada.
Abstract:
Home care workers are mobile, work out of different locations, and have a high level of uncertainty in their schedules. This makes communication and information sharing difficult, and workers are often unable to account for others' activities when planning their own treatments. To address this issue, we developed and evaluated a clinical information system for home care that supports current paperwork practices and stores documents in a central repository that is accessible by all workers that treat a patient.
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