Telesurveillance and mental health

INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine can help manage patients suffering from chronic pathologies, particularly elderly patients with numerous comorbidities. We experimented with the e-platform, MyPredi, dedicated to the automated, intelligent detection of situations where patients are at risk of decompensation from geriatric syndromes. We focused our experiment on one particular patient included in the GER-e-TEC study. METHODS: The MyPredi platform uses on medical sensors that communicate and relay real-time feedback to an intelligent system of physiological information that analyzes medical ontology, ultimately leading to the generation of alerts...

OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that variability in voluntary movement paths of assisted living facility (ALF) residents would be greater in the week preceding a fall compared with residents who did not fall. DESIGN: Prospective, observational study using telesurveillance technology. SETTING: Two ALFs. PARTICIPANTS: The sample consisted of 69 older ALF residents (53 female) aged 76.9 (SD ± 11.9 years). MEASUREMENT: Daytime movement in ALF common use areas was automatically tracked using a commercially available ultra-wideband radio real-time location sensor network with a spatial resolution of approximately 20 cm...

BACKGROUND: Telesurveillance is a technologically based modality that allows the surveillance of patients in the natural setting, mainly home. It is based on communication technologies to relay information between a patient and a central call center where services are coordinated. Different types of telesurveillance systems have been implemented, some being staffed with non-health professionals and others with health professional, mainly nurses. Up to now, only telesurveillance services staffed with non-health professionals have been shown to be effective and efficient...