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5 Concluding Discussion
Pages 67-70

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... Medical devices, reimbursement issues, transportation, housing, and even the bandwidths used for medical monitoring are all important factors in home health care, and in an ideal world the regulations governing these domains would work together rather than at cross purposes. George Demiris added that software platforms for disease management or telemonitoring need to be coordinated to avoid problems with interoperability, vocabulary, and communications.
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... Neil Charness called attention to the challenge very low population densities pose to home health care. Technology may provide a way to do virtual visits in such settings, but technology does not necessarily offer full access to a person's home.
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... • Human factors techniques, such as root cause analyses or failure modes and effects analyses, could provide useful insights in the home health care setting. • Quasi-experimental designs and evaluation techniques could be used to spur interest in research and applications.
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... 0 HUMAN FACTORS IN HOME HEALTH CARE • Health care may not be a unified system, but systems analysis can be applied to the role that health care plays in people's lives. • Health care needs change over time, and human factors research can consider the ways in which these changes affect the delivery of health care.
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