Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study
Development of new personal mobile and wireless devices for healthcare has become essential due to our aging population characterized by constant rise in chronic diseases that consequently require a complex treatment and close monitoring. Personal telehealth devices allow patients to adequately rece...
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| author | Malek Tabbara Thomas Hodel Urs Müller Gabi Briner Heinz Zimmermann Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos |
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| description | Development of new personal mobile and wireless devices for healthcare has become essential due to our aging population characterized by constant rise in chronic diseases that consequently require a complex treatment and close monitoring. Personal telehealth devices allow patients to adequately receive their appropriate treatment, followup with their doctors, and report any emergency without the need of the presence of any caregivers with them thus increasing their quality of life in a cost-effective fashion. This paper includes a brief overview of personal telehealth systems, a survey of 100 consecutive ED patients aged >65 years, and introduces “Limmex” a new GSM based technology packaged in a wristwatch. Limmex can by a push of a button initiate multiple emergency call and establish mobile communication between the patient and a preselected person, institution, or a search and rescue service. To the best of our knowledge, Limmex is the first of its kind worldwide. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9770f75838d84367848beb08a36864192025-02-03T01:21:41ZengWileyInternational Journal of Telemedicine and Applications1687-64151687-64232012-01-01201210.1155/2012/736264736264Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original StudyMalek Tabbara0Thomas Hodel1Urs Müller2Gabi Briner3Heinz Zimmermann4Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos5Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, CH-3010 Berne, SwitzerlandDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, CH-3010 Berne, SwitzerlandHealth Care Research Institute AG, CH-8005 Zürich, SwitzerlandDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, CH-3010 Berne, SwitzerlandDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, CH-3010 Berne, SwitzerlandDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, CH-3010 Berne, SwitzerlandDevelopment of new personal mobile and wireless devices for healthcare has become essential due to our aging population characterized by constant rise in chronic diseases that consequently require a complex treatment and close monitoring. Personal telehealth devices allow patients to adequately receive their appropriate treatment, followup with their doctors, and report any emergency without the need of the presence of any caregivers with them thus increasing their quality of life in a cost-effective fashion. This paper includes a brief overview of personal telehealth systems, a survey of 100 consecutive ED patients aged >65 years, and introduces “Limmex” a new GSM based technology packaged in a wristwatch. Limmex can by a push of a button initiate multiple emergency call and establish mobile communication between the patient and a preselected person, institution, or a search and rescue service. To the best of our knowledge, Limmex is the first of its kind worldwide.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/736264 |
| spellingShingle | Malek Tabbara Thomas Hodel Urs Müller Gabi Briner Heinz Zimmermann Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications |
| title | Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study |
| title_full | Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study |
| title_fullStr | Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study |
| title_short | Do We Need New Personalized Emergency Telehealth Solutions? A Survey of 100 Emergency Department Patients and a First Report of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch: An Original Study |
| title_sort | do we need new personalized emergency telehealth solutions a survey of 100 emergency department patients and a first report of the swiss limmex emergency wristwatch an original study |
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