Reducing hospital length of stay through the formation of a hi-tec home-care environment

B. Spyropoulos; M. Botsivaly

2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

Reducing hospital length of stay through the formation of a hi-tec home-care environment

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    author={B. Spyropoulos and M. Botsivaly},
    title={Reducing hospital length of stay through the formation of a hi-tec home-care environment},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Broadband Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
    year={2006},
    month={2},
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    doi={10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589718}
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B. Spyropoulos
M. Botsivaly
Year: 2006
Reducing hospital length of stay through the formation of a hi-tec home-care environment
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589718

B. Spyropoulos¹^,*, M. Botsivaly¹

1: Medical Instrumentation Technology Department,Technological Education Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece

*Contact email: basile@teiath.gr

Abstract

The miniaturization of equipment and the falling prices of biomedical technology, combined to a highly computerized mobile "home-care environment" may result in alternative diagnostic and treatment patterns, including, home-care by mobile medical and nursing staff, health-tourism by adapting hotel, cruisers etc. to the needs of such a project, community common space activities combined to preventive medicine etc. This would result in a decreasing number of patients in hospitals and other costly traditional ambulatory services, as well as, a much more attractive way for the patient to lend himself to be treated. Some conceptual and practical configurations, based on commercially available components will be presented

Published: 2006-02-13
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBN.2005.1589718