Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether rehabilitative digital gaming facilitates cognitive functioning and general well-being in people with TBI.
Florence (or Flo) is an interactive telehealth platform which sends text messages to patients offering reminders and advice, or asking the patient to submit readings such as blood pressure.Manage Your Health (MYH) is a collection of apps offering a range of formats to demonstrate key pieces of advice and information for managing a number of long-term conditions. Videos of correct inhaler techniques have been of particular benefit in improving patients’ self-management of their respiratory conditions.
Conclusions
Telehealth applications can appropriately be used to diagnose dementia. However, most of the studies included only small sample sizes and did not test the applications explicitly in rural or remote populations. Therefore, studies taking these limitations into account are needed. On top, only two RCTs are included in this review indicating that more high quality studies in this field are needed. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Purpose: The aim of this review is to analyse the different existing technologies for gait rehabilitation, focusing mainly in robotic devices. Those robots help the patient to recover a lost function due to neurological gait disorders, accidents or after injury. Besides, they facilitate the identification of normal and abnormal features by registering muscle activity providing the doctor important data where he can observe the evolution of the patient. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice' is the first game to use state-of-the-art techniques to evoke the voices and visions experienced by people who live with psychosis. The game uses a binaural technique that mimics 3D human hearing – players experience visual and auditory hallucinations as if they are Senua and 'hear' voices just behind them, or whispering in their ear.
For better or worse, the EHR has become an integral part of medical care. For every hour we spend on direct patient care, we spend another two with the EHR.5 Even when interacting with patients, our focus is on computer screens up to 80% of the time.6
Given this degree of attention, it is not surprising that the EHR influences physician behaviour, especially the overuse of low-value medical care. For example, an unchecked box on an order set provides a powerful stimulus to order a test, regardless of clinical utility.7 Displaying brand name instead of generic options leads to more expensive prescribing.8 Allowing labs to be ordered recurrently increases unnecessary phlebotomy.9 Even individually listing inappropriate antibiotics (rather than grouping them) can make them more noticeable, resulting in more broad-spectrum use.10. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
News from our partners Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin (Age UK STW)
The spring meeting of the Shropshire Older People’s Assembly (SOPA) is on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at University Centre Shrewsbury.
With pressures on health and social care, the meeting is themed around alternative medicine and assistive technology in the home to raise awareness of the opportunities available to older people in Shropshire.
Objective: The goal of this work was to provide an overview of the practices implemented for the assessment of stroke patients and cognitive rehabilitation. This study puts together traditional methods and the most recent personalized platforms based on ICT technologies and Internet of Things.
Five phases emerged relating to the process of becoming a user of AT: phase A: Evaluating need, phase B: Acknowledging need, phase C: Incorporating the AT into daily life, phase D: Using the AT, and phase E: Future use. Three transitions, describing factors essential to moving from one phase to the next, were identified; from phase A–B: Valued activities are threatened, from phase B–C: Obtaining the AT and from phase C–D: Trust in the AT. No transition was identified from phase D–E. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Results: The findings show that a number of factors influence the acceptance of AAC systems. These include the time since onset and acceptance of disability, the person’s attitude towards communication facilitators, and the perceptions about AAC systems. These findings indicate that the process of accepting an AAC system is multi-layered and these layers are interrelated. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Dementia is the most widespread form of neurodegenerative disorder and is associated with an immense societal and personal cost. Prevalence of this disorder is projected to triple worldwide by 2050 leading to an urgent need to make advances in the efficiency of both its care and therapy research. Digital technologies are a rapidly advancing field that provide a previously unavailable opportunity to alleviate challenges faced by clinicians and researchers working in this area. This clinical review aimed to summarise currently available evidence on digital technologies that can be used to monitor cognition.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.