INTERACTIVE HOME HEALTH COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE AGED

第二阶段SBIR工作的具体目标是设计， 实施、实地测试和评估一个交互式多媒体和先进的 用于“连续可用医疗护理”（CAMC）的电信系统 针对老年患者的需求。一个“电子网络将连接 将家中和聚集场所的患者转移到家庭保健护士， 医生在他们的办公室和医院急诊室，提供 每天24小时，每周7天服务。多点视频会议 能力将允许多个供应商同时交互 确定老年人的护理需求。数据将收集于 实验组的健康状况与常规组相比的变化 关怀小组CAMC系统对医疗保健有很大的好处 系统通过减少医院利用率，减少疗养院 利用率，减少日常办公室访问量， 常规家庭保健访问，提高提供者的效率 手术，并改善对病人和病人的心理社会支持， 家人CAMC系统将针对HMOS和其他组织 为严重和慢性病患者承担资本金融风险。 这个市场可以代表一个CAMC系统可以提供 每年节省数十亿美元的成本。 建议的商业应用：作品的商业应用 衍生品也很大。 在特定的护理领域， 有慢性疾病的老年人，市场远远超过1 百万家庭。 软件应用程序的价格为1，200美元 这意味着一个超过10亿美元的市场。

The specific objectives of this phase II SBIR effort are to design, implement, field test and evaluate an interactive multimedia and advanced telecommunication system for "Continuously Available Medical Care" (CAMC) targeted at the needs of aged patients. An "electronic network will link patients at home and in congregate sites to home health nurses, physicians in their offices and hospital emergency departments, providing 24 hour per day and 7 day per week service. Multi-point videoconferencing capabilities will allow simultaneous interaction of multiple providers in determining care needs of the elderly. Data will be collected on changes in health status for an experimental group compared to a usual care group. CAMC Systems can be of great benefit to the health care system by reducing hospital utilization, reducing nursing home utilization, reducing the volume of routine office visits, decreasing routine home health care visits, increasing the efficiency of provider operations, and improving psycho-social supports to the patient and the family. CAMC systems will be targeted at HMOS and other organizations assuming capitated financial risk for the seriously and chronically ill. This market could represent one in which CAMC systems could provide billions of dollars per year in cost savings. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The commercial applications of the work and derivatives are quite large. In the specific domain of care for the elderly with a chronic medical problem(s), the market is well over 1 million households. At a price of $1,200 for software application components, this represents a market of over 1 billion dollars.