The CareMore project?s principal aims are to improve the productivity, working conditions, and quality of the administration of District Nurses making home visits. Using mobile phones or personal digital assistants (PDAs), it allows nurses to access and update patient data, improves the planning and scheduling of home visits, and provides administrative applications.
With burgeoning costs in the healthcare sector, it is vital to provide care professionals with the means and support to enable them to be as efficient as possible. CareMore uses a WAP application, GPRS and Web technologies to allow carers to access information and update records in real time while on the road.
Nurses are now better informed and can communicate with each other in real time. Patient details are kept up-to-date. Nurses save considerable time and trouble, no longer needing to drive back and forth to obtain patient records. It is no longer necessary to enter hand-written records into the system at a later date.
The mobile solution eliminates the need for storing personal patient information directly on the handset. This is an advantage for the security of private information.
The CareMore solution was the first of its kind using GPRS in Europe. Sensire uses CareMore in the Eastern Netherlands.
Main results, benefits and impacts
-Return on investment
Return on investment: Not applicable / Not availableLessons learnt
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