2008/01/01 by B. Spyropoulos, Spyropoulos, Basile, M. Botsivaly +9
Computer Science · Health Professions · Medicine · #Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems #Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units #House call #Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues #continuity of care record #homecare #medical record #point-of-care in vitro diagnostics #portable imaging equipment #treatment plan.
paper · doi:10.4230/dagsemproc.07462.25
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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 Cell-phone 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 explore the most important issues concerning the emerging contemporary house call Medical Practice, and 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.