The Elder Health Information Technology Framework for Geriatric Care in Rural India: A Policy Initiative

• 作者: Keya Sen Stan Ingman
• 来源期刊: 通讯与网络(英文)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: Older Adults Elder Health Information Technology Quality of Life MHEALTH Social Network Interface Service Quality
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 页码范围: 12-24
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: TP3

摘要

<span style="font-family:Verdana;">Healthcare monitoring and analysis of healthcare parameters is a reality to reduce costs and increase access to specialist and experts that holds the future for geriatric care in India. This paper proposes distinct methods towards the implementation of rural elder health information technologies (IT), which includes electronic medical records, clinical decision support, mobile medical applications, and software driven medical devices used in the diagnosis or treatment of disease for the older adult population in the villages of India. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The purpose is online patient satisfaction at the microlev</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">el</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> (village pan</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">chayat) through methods accessible and affordable by establishing a common standard of operations at the village primary care units giving way to early disease detection and routine screening among the aged population avoiding institutionalization. The rural elder health IT framework is of great interest for all stakeholders in the field, as it benefits the investors and the consumers, adding to the technological infrastructure, thereby opening new avenues of research in health informatics, telemedicine and enhancing the scope of geriatric research, which in turn enhances the health-related quality of life for the rural older adults in the remote villages of the nation.</span></span></span>