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Authors:
Cristina Adriana Alexandru
Keywords: telemedicine; telemonitoring; efficiency; scaling up; cognitive modelling; simulation
Abstract:
The planning and development of large-scale telemedicine system implementations throughout Europe motivates the need for cost effective ways to predict the level of their success in each new context. The efficiency of the system and that of the work process involving it influence the success of any telemedicine implementation, determining whether the existing healthcare staff will be able to manage their workload in their available time. This paper demonstrates by means of examples how we could use observations from repeated simulations of a nurse working with a telemedicine system in different contexts, which may differ in several ways, to predict the efficiency of the work process. The examples presented in the paper are based on previous experience with the use of telemedicine systems in Lothian, Scotland.
Pages: 230 to 235
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: March 23, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-327-8
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from March 23, 2014 to March 27, 2014