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2007
Better Breathing
The goal of Better Breathing has been to provide a new model for continuous care of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) patients. In the project solutions for home based rehabilitation, monitoring, self-management tools and virtual communities for COPD patients have been field trailed and evaluated on four different sites - Norway, Denmark, Spain and Wales.
In Norway, a home based pulmonary rehabilitation program has been field-trialed. The patients’ ordinary TV and a remote control have been used as an interface at home, and the services tested included group based education and exercising, individual consultations, and a personal health diary with predefined questions and monitoring information. A multidisciplinary team of healthcare personnel participated.
Project period
2007- 2009
Financing
eTEN - a European Community programme
Project partners
- The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Norway
- Norut - Northern Research Institute, Norway
- Fyn Hospital, Denmark
- Danish Centre for Health Telematics, Denmark (coordinator)
- Ministry of Health of Catalan Government, Spain
- Hospital Clinic Provincial Barcelona, Spain
- TB Solutions Advanced Technologies, Spain
- NHS Wales, Informing Healthcare, Wales
- Docobo Ltd , Wales
- MIR Medical International Research, Italia
- Health Information Management SA, Belgium
Contact person
Tatjana M. Burkow, tatjana.m.burkow@telemed.no
Better Breathing is part of a project portfolio at NST/Norut making personal healthcare technologies and services for in-house and while on the move for the chronically ill: MyHealthService (2007 - 2011), Well@Home (2007 - 2009), IS-ACTIVE (2009 – 2012) and MinHelsestasjon (2005/2006)
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