Homehealth is no exception from the rest of medical field when it comes to evolving with the technology. Homehealth is no longer based entirely on human assistance and expertise, and it is being increasingly involved with assisted technologies to enhance the reliability of care. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently been extending an increased amount of funding for research on homehealth-based technologies and the field is so dynamic that researchers are falling behind because the technology under consideration is already outdated by their research project is completed. The number of research articles on homehealth technology as indexed by MEDLINE has almost been tripled from 556 to 1390 from 2003-2013, a trend that is visible even more so recently. There are two major types of homehealth technologies: active technologies who need some level of human interaction, and passive technologies who do not need human interaction. Even though there are some major challenges, such as privacy assurance, ease of use, user-friendliness, etc., to be addressed before adoption of homehealth technologies are to be seen prevalently, outcome of evidence-based research at the University of Washington suggests that homecare clients with higher acceptability of technologies may produce high levels of satisfaction. So how are you catching up with the advancement of homehealth technologies? Are you open to changes and would like to see improvements in the outcome of homehealth services for your loved one? Contact Redan Medical if you want to try new technologies inside your household, or simply want to know more about what is out there! We would be more than happy to provide you with free consultation!
“Evidence-based research at the University of Washington suggests that homecare clients with higher acceptability of technologies may produce high levels of satisfaction. So how are you catching up with the advancement of homehealth technologies?”
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