Patient satisfaction with a home televisiting service based on interactive television over a cable network.
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2000-05-25
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Experience shows that high quality audiovisual contact between remote health carers and patients facilitates a telemedicine service However the lack of broadband communication to the home usually prevents domestic televisiting Deployment of cable networks in Spain has allowed the implementation of a home televisiting service designed for patients with chronic diseases In a trial 15 patients received televisits by three specialists and three nurses from the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Madrid Five patients suffered from chronic pain five were from the nephrology unit and five had been treated at the intensive care unit after acute myocardial infarction Each patient participated in three televisiting sessions two provided by a specialist and the other by a nurse The average length of a televisit was 12 min range 5 21 min The patients expressed their satisfaction with the service