Interactive Home Health Computer System

We will develop commercial software and related services which will provide for new types ofelectronic interactions between health care providers and elderly individuals who need outpatient orhome health care services for chronic medical conditions. It will substitute information technology forboth physician and nursing services to such patients; thereby, reducing expenditures for care andproviding better health outcomes. The specific aims of Phase I are (l) to design the softwarecomponents of an interactive multimedia system for the home management of older adults with chronicmedical conditions, (2) to prototype and demonstrate several components of such a system, and (3) todevelop a study design for evaluating its clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness. The key output willbe a full functional specification for an interactive multimedia home health care information system thatdeals with clinical problems representing a majority of visits to urban medical clinics.