Aspects of Human Factors Engineering in Home Telemedicine and Telerehabilitation Systems

Lathan, Corinna; Kinsella, Audrey; Rosen, Michael J.; Winters, Jack M.; Trepagnier, Cheryl

doi:10.1089/107830299312131

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“…patient's home). As a consequence, a reduction of unnecessary costs and a better costs^eneflts ratio are achieved, making possible a more efficient use of the available resources [16,17].…”

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Improving Brain Injury Cognitive Rehabilitation by Personalized Telerehabilitation Services: Guttmann Neuropersonal Trainer

Solana

Cáceres

García-Molina

et al. 2015

IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform.

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Abstract-Cognitive rehabilitation aims to remediate or alleviate the cognitive deficits appearing after an episode of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). The purpose of this work is to describe the tele-rehabilitation platform called Guttmann Neuro Personal Trainer (GNPT) which provides new strategies for cognitive rehabilitation, improving efficiency and access to treatments, and to increase knowledge generation from the process. Cognitive rehabilitation process has been modeled to design and develop the system, which allows neuropsychologists to configure and schedule rehabilitation sessions, consisting of set of personalized computerized cognitive exercises grounded on neuroscience and plasticity principles. It provides remote continuous monitoring of patient's performance, by an asynchronous communication strategy. An automatic knowledge extraction method has been used to implement a decision support system, improving treatment customization. GNPT has been implemented in 27 rehabilitation centers and in 83 patients' homes, facilitating the access to the treatment. In total, 1660 patients have been treated. Usability and cost analysis methodologies have been applied to measure the efficiency in real clinical environments. The usability evaluation reveals a System Usability Score higher than 70 for all target users. The cost efficiency study results show a relation of 1 to 20 compared to faceto-face rehabilitation. GNPT enables brain-damaged patients to continue and further extend rehabilitation beyond the hospital, improving the efficiency of the rehabilitation process. It allows customized therapeutic plans, providing information to further development of clinical practice guidelines.

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“…patient's home). As a consequence, a reduction of unnecessary costs and a better costs^eneflts ratio are achieved, making possible a more efficient use of the available resources [16,17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Brain Injury Cognitive Rehabilitation by Personalized Telerehabilitation Services: Guttmann Neuropersonal Trainer

Solana

Cáceres

García-Molina

et al. 2015

IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform.

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“…Age, education, experience in technology, home environment, cognitive deficits, motor and visual ability, phonation and speech play an important role in the patient's ability to use technology during tele-rehabilitation [77]. The training to the use of technology and the structure of the programme should be directed to caregivers in order to make them able to act in accordance with predefined protocols [78].…”

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Tele-monitoring of ventilator-dependent patients: a European Respiratory Society Statement

Ambrosino¹,

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The estimated prevalence of ventilator-dependent individuals in Europe is 6.6 per 100 000 people. The increasing number and costs of these complex patients make present health organisations largely insufficient to face their needs. As a consequence, their burden lays mostly over families. The need to reduce healthcare costs and to increase safety has prompted the development of tele-monitoring for home ventilatory assistance.

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“…Therefore, guaranteeing the correct use of these applications implies to incorporate different studies of usability in the life cycle of the interactive system. For this reason, aspects of human factors engineering in tele-rehabilitation systems have been studied with the aim of providing accessible, efficient, usable and understandable systems [11,12].…”

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A Systematic Review of Usability and Accessibility in Tele-Rehabilitation Systems

Pérez-Medina¹,

Acosta-Vargas²,

Rybarczyk³

2019

Assistive and Rehabilitation Engineering

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The appropriate development of tele-rehabilitation platforms requires the involvement and iterative assessments of potential users and experts in usability. Usability consists of measuring the degree to which an interactive system can be used by specified final users to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a quantified context of use. Usability studies need to be complemented by an accessibility assessment. Accessibility indicates how easy it is for a person to access any content, regardless of their physical, educational, social, psychological, or cultural conditions. This chapter intends to conduct a systematic review of the literature on usability and accessibility in tele-rehabilitation platforms carried out through the PRISMA method. To do so, we searched in ACM, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases for the most relevant papers of the last decade. The main result of the usability shows that the user experience predominates over the heuristic studies, and the usability questionnaire most used in user experience is the SUS. The main result of the accessibility reveals that the topic is only marginally studied. In addition, it is observed that Web applications do not apply the physical and cognitive accessibility standards defined by the WCAG 2.1.

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Aspects of Human Factors Engineering in Home Telemedicine and Telerehabilitation Systems

Cited by 33 publications

References 7 publications

Improving Brain Injury Cognitive Rehabilitation by Personalized Telerehabilitation Services: Guttmann Neuropersonal Trainer

Improving Brain Injury Cognitive Rehabilitation by Personalized Telerehabilitation Services: Guttmann Neuropersonal Trainer

Tele-monitoring of ventilator-dependent patients: a European Respiratory Society Statement

A Systematic Review of Usability and Accessibility in Tele-Rehabilitation Systems

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