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Progress in the last 12 months of the Telemedicine research project include applying E-Medicine in different clinical settings, routine usage of the Personal Healthcare Information Management System (PHIMS) and Facilitated Accurate Referral Management System (FARMS) at the UW Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and the deployment of the PHIMS system at the Everett Housing Authority (EHA) in the United States. The preliminary results from this deployment of the PHIMS system has been outstanding. Between 2005 and 2007, the Team’s milestones include customizing and adapting PHIMS for studies in various clinical settings, extending clinical studies, developing an integrated array of sensors and developing smart data processing algorithms for decision support and personalized patient education. Other milestones include using the PHIMS platform to develop and test various web-based chronic illness management applications, using PHIMS as a follow-up tool for patient’s health status after surgery and promoting PHIMS to be broadly accepted by both care providers and patients. In Singapore, the Telemedicine project attempts to help address the healthcare challenges of an ageing population by implementing a customized PHIMS system in Singapore-based homes for senior citizens. The system, known as the Distributed Personal Health Information Management System or D-PHIMS aims to establish a telemedicine framework which will encourage volunteerism among medical specialists to provide free assessments at their convenience to better manage the healthcare of senior citizens at the homes via care-givers. The Telemedicine team is currently conducting a clinical trial at a local senior citizen home where researchers from the team regularly visit the home to facilitate and assist the care-givers at the home. The responses to survey questions gathered during the D-PHIMS clinical study have proved useful in understanding patients’ experiences during the study. Further to the D-PHIMS research work, the Telemedicine team is continuing its research focus on other key areas such as telecardiology and an imaging system for breast cancer detection.
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