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What is Home Care Technologies

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Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Any technology used to implement home-care telemedicine services; also any device or any instrument for patient monitoring, therapy, or environmental control (Mantas & Hasman 2002).
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Healthcare Training for the Greek Municipalities' Citizens in the Program of "Home Help" With the Medical Educational Websites
Bill Ag Drougas (Higher Technological Institute of Epirus, Greece)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch084
Abstract
Today, the Internet is one of the most useful tools for information, education, business, and entertainment. It is one of the modern technology tools giving us many applications. One of the most important applications of the Internet is the health educational Web sites. These sites can be used not only by researchers but also by everyone easily taking important information for continuing self-training. In the division of public health, this part is very important. Medical Web sites give us access to information about our health or about prevention methods. In Greece today, there is a new 12-hour program offering home health help and care to citizens. This program is under the organization of the local municipalities and the affiliation of the Ministry of Health.
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