The Development of a Computerized Information System for Integrated Home Care in The Netherlands

Abstract Functional decline in older adults often lead towards acute or long-term care. In practice, caregivers often focus on completion of care tasks and of prevention of injuries from falls. This task based, safety approach inadvertently results in fewer opportunities for older adults to be actively involved in activities. Further deconditioning and functional decline are common consequences of this inactivity. To prevent or postpone these consequences Function Focused Care (FFC) was developed meaning that caregivers adapt their level of assistance to the capabilities of older adults and stimulate them to do as much as possible by themselves. FFC was first implemented in institutionalized long-term care in the US, but has spread rapidly to other settings (e.g. acute care), target groups (e.g. people with dementia) and countries (e.g. the Netherlands). During this symposium, four presenters from the US and the Netherlands talk about the impact of FFC. The first presentation is about the results of a stepped wedge cluster trial showing a tendency to improve activities of daily living and mobility. The second presentation is about a FFC training program. FFC was feasible to implement in home care and professionals experienced positive changes in knowledge, attitude, skills and support. The next presenter reports about significant improvements regarding time spent in physical activity and a decrease in resistiveness to care in a cluster randomized controlled trial among nursing home residents with dementia. The fourth speaker presents the content and first results of a training program to implement FFC in nursing homes. Nursing Care of Older Adults Interest Group Sponsored Symposium

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Clinical Evaluation of Automated Arrhythmia Monitoring and its Integration with Respiratory Monitoring in a General Computerized Information System

Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine ◽

10.1007/978-1-4615-6701-1_27 ◽

1980 ◽

pp. 269-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Svante Baehrendtz ◽

Johan Hulting ◽

Georg Matell ◽

Mats-Erik Nygȧrds

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Clinical Evaluation ◽

Respiratory Monitoring ◽

Computerized Information System

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Evaluasi Implementasi Proyek Sistem Aplikasi Terintegrasi Persediaan, Pembelian dan Penjualan: Studi Kasus Cyber Project di PT Pura Mayungan

ComTech Computer Mathematics and Engineering Applications ◽

10.21512/comtech.v3i1.2385 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 78

Author(s):

Iwan Kurniawan Widjaya

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Project Management ◽

Data Collection ◽

Management System ◽

Operation Management ◽

Company Performance ◽

Project Management System ◽

Computerized Information System

In industry field, designing products that meet the criterias and expectations of the consumers is a must. PT Pura Mayungan as an industry panel company obtained a Cyber Project which required a particular project management system. In the meantime, the regulation and monitoring of all activities related to the cyber panel have not been well integrated as in the activities of inventory, purchasing, and sales towards the cyber project focusing. This causes difficulties in generating information needed by the management. Thus, a project management system was built to assist in the operation management activities including purchasing, inventory and sales. Besides, there was a need to build a computerized information system specifically for handling the calculation and recording of inventory and transactions to improve company performance. In this research two methods were implemented: analysis and data collection through literature evaluation. This research concluded that the lack of regulation and monitoring would bring a lot of difficulties in delivering information.

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A Groupware Tool to Facilitate Caregiving for Home-Dwelling Frail Older Persons in the Netherlands: Mixed-Methods Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.10697 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hanneke Breebaart ◽

Marjolein Broese van Groenou

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Home Care ◽

Digital Communication ◽

Care Organization ◽

Care Network ◽

Formal Caregivers ◽

Care Recipients ◽

Frail Older Persons ◽

Informal Carers

BACKGROUND Collaboration among informal and formal caregivers in a mixed care network of home-dwelling elderly may benefit from using a groupware app for digital networked communication (DNC). OBJECTIVE This study aimed to describe and explain differences in the use and evaluation of a DNC app by members of the care network and to come up with a list of conditions that facilitate (or restrict) the implementation of a DNC app by a home care organization. METHODS A pilot study collected information on digital communication in 7 care networks of clients of a home care organization in the Netherlands. Semistructured interviews with 4 care recipients, 7 informal carers (of which 3 spoke on behalf of the care receiver as well on account of receivers’ suffering from dementia), 3 district nurses, 5 auxiliary nurses, and 3 managers were conducted 3 times in a period of 6 months. In addition, we observed relevant workshops initiated by the home care organization and studied log-in data created by the users of the DNC app. RESULTS The qualitative data and the monthly retrieved quantitative log-in data revealed 3 types of digital care networks: arranging the care network, discuss the care network, and staying connected network. Differences between network types were attributed to health impairment and digital illiteracy of the care recipients, motivation of informal caregivers, and commitment of formal caregivers. The easy availability of up-to-date information, the ability to promote a sense of safety for the carers, and short communication lines in case of complex care situations were positively evaluated. CONCLUSIONS It is concluded that digital communication is beneficial for organizing and discussing the care within a care network. More research is needed to study its impact on care burden of informal carers, on quality of care, and on quality of life of home-dwelling frail older adults.

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