Edited by: Richard Wootton Centre for Online Health, Queensland, Australia Susan L Dimmick Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis TN, USA Joseph C Kvedar Director, Partners Telemedicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA £11.99,  978-1-85315-657-1,  280pp,  Hardback,  April 2006

Home Telehealth, the newest addition to the RSM Press telemedicine series, describes the medical treatments that can now take place in the home thanks to advances in telemedicine technology.

As demand on hospitals increases, as well as concern about the secondary infections that can be contracted during visits, health experts and government advisors are looking at ways in which the long term sick, as well as acute patients, can be treated in alternate settings. This book covers what has been done to date, as well as practical guides to setting up a suitable home care facility and how this facility interacts with the health professional.

Fully illustrated with colour images, and jam packed full of up to date information covering all the latest developments in telemedicine in the home, this book is an indispensable guide for all home telehealth providers, physicians, nurses, physical therapists and anyone contemplating a home telehealth application.

Contents:
Section 1: Basics
· Outcomes
Susan G. Slater, Laurie Neander and Dottie Fazenbaker
· Economic evaluation
Paul A. Scuffham
· Patient and provider satisfaction
Pamela Whitten and Alicia Bergman
· Business models and return on investment
Herschel Peddicord, Karen R. Thomas and Allyson M. Beach
· The evidence base
Mark Bensink, David Hailey and Richard Wootton

Section 2: Techniques
· Smart homes
Vincent Rialle, Pierre Rumeau, Catherine Ollivet and Christian Hervé
· Wound management
Christy M. Williams, Kathy Duckett and Joseph C. Kvedar
· Home telehealth for Veterans
Rita F. Kobb and Neale R. Chumbler
· Home-based disease management
George Demiris
· Fall monitoring
Simon Brownsell and Mark S. Hawley
· Quarantine and isolation
Susan L. Dimmick and Kunka D. Ignatova

Section 3: Application areas
· HIV/AIDS
César Cáceres, Enrique J. Gómez, M. Elena Hernando, Felipe Garcíaand Francisco Del-Pozo
· Home dialysis
Veli N. Stroetmann, Michael Nebel, Simon Robinson and Karl A. Stroetmann
· Quality of care
Barbara Johnston and Sam G. Burgiss
· Diabetes
Justin Starren, Ruth S. Weinstock, Walter Palmas, Roberto E. Izquierdo, Philip C. Morin and David Kaufman
· Congestive heart failure
Penny Ford-Carleton, Nancy Lugn, Nhedti Colquitt, Marcia Reissig, Irene Higginson and Joseph C. Kvedar
· Home health monitoring
Shigeru Ohta, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Yoshimitsu Shinagawa and Toshio Kishimoto
· Home-based telecardiology
Simonetta Scalvini, Emanuela Zanelli and Amerigo Giordano
· Child monitoring
Andrea Tura and Luca Quareni
· Palliative care
Marilynne A. Hebert, J.J. Jansen and Lynn Whitten
· Remote asthma monitoring
Vedran Ostojic

Section 4: The future
· Financial implications of widescale implementation of telecare 259
David A. Bradley and Simon Brownsell
· Conclusion
Richard Wootton, Susan L. Dimmick and Joseph C. Kvedar

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