Home telecare

Ruggiero, Carmelina; Sacile, Roberto; Giacomini, Mauro

doi:10.1258/1357633991932333

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“…Acoustic measurements can also improve the individual treatment 16 and thus partially alleviate the inconvenience and cost of physical visits. 24 Moreover, voice measurement is non-invasive, cheap, and simple to administer.…”

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Quantitative acoustic measurements for characterization of speech and voice disorders in early untreated Parkinson’s disease

Rusz

Čmejla

Růžičková

et al. 2011

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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An assessment of vocal impairment is presented for separating healthy people from persons with early untreated Parkinson's disease (PD). This study's main purpose was to (a) determine whether voice and speech disorder are present from early stages of PD before starting dopaminergic pharmacotherapy, (b) ascertain the specific characteristics of the PD-related vocal impairment, (c) identify PD-related acoustic signatures for the major part of traditional clinically used measurement methods with respect to their automatic assessment, and (d) design new automatic measurement methods of articulation. The varied speech data were collected from 46 Czech native speakers, 23 with PD. Subsequently, 19 representative measurements were pre-selected, and Wald sequential analysis was then applied to assess the efficiency of each measure and the extent of vocal impairment of each subject. It was found that measurement of the fundamental frequency variations applied to two selected tasks was the best method for separating healthy from PD subjects. On the basis of objective acoustic measures, statistical decision-making theory, and validation from practicing speech therapists, it has been demonstrated that 78% of early untreated PD subjects indicate some form of vocal impairment. The speech defects thus uncovered differ individually in various characteristics including phonation, articulation, and prosody.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantitative acoustic measurements for characterization of speech and voice disorders in early untreated Parkinson’s disease

Rusz

Čmejla

Růžičková

et al. 2011

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

376

236

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“…These findings are further supported by other programs that have recognized the significant benefits and cost savings from providing home telehealth. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Yet, fewer than 200 home health programs currently use telemedicine. 13 Even fewer of these programs exist in rural communities that have even more to gain from this technology.…”

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Rural Outreach in Home Telehealth: Assessing Challenges and Reviewing Successes

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Cole

Pellegrino

et al. 2006

Telemedicine and e-Health

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Most home health agencies that adopt home telehealth tend to be located in urban or metropolitan areas. This paper discusses a 3-year pilot of home telehealth in four rural areas. Several challenges related to the rural nature of the home health agencies were recognized. These challenges are discussed with recommendations for assessing rural home health agencies for home telehealth. Our findings suggest ways to improve the implementation of home telehealth for rural home health agencies. In addition to the challenges, successes were realized as well. Approximately 145 travel hours and 7500 miles of nurse travel were avoided through the use of home telehealth during the program. Patient examples show improvements in their medical conditions, which the nursing staff thought would not have been accomplished without the more frequent monitoring that home telehealth allowed the agencies to provide.

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“…In recent years, due to the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT), the feasibility of home telehealthcare conception (Koch, 2006;Rigby, 2007;Ruggiero et al, 1999) has been highly raised. Many physiological monitoring systems for home tele-healthcare and pervasive healthcare applications had been widely investigated.…”

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confidence: 99%