Annemarie van Hout

Windesheim Flevoland | windesheim · Research Group for ICT Innovations in Health Care

Background To support early recognition of clinical deterioration on a general ward continuous vital signs monitoring (CMVS) systems using wearable devices are increasingly being investigated. Although nurses play a crucial role in successful implementation, reported nurse adoption and acceptance scores vary significantly. In-depth insight into the...

Background To support early recognition of clinical deterioration on a general ward continuous vital signs monitoring (CMVS) systems using wearable devices are increasingly being investigated. Although nurses play a crucial role in successful implementation, reported nurse adoption and acceptance scores vary significantly. In-depth insight into the...

Why expectations of telecare are often wrong An ethnographic study of a telecare device used by nurses in palliative care Telecare is increasingly applied in nursing care with the expectation that it will lead to valuable improvements in measurements, data collection, efficiency and communication options. However, science and technology studies ha...

Health-care technology is here to stay. We may therefore expect its use to cease to be a novelty and become part of the normal routine. However, telecare (a set of technologies used for care at a distance) is not yet part of the daily routine for nurses. They still have to do a lot of work to accommodate telecare, or they choose not to work with te...

Mental health care is increasingly given at a distance, supported by technology. In this article, we focus on whether care, when technology comes in, still counts as good care. Therefore, we looked into a mental health nursing telecare practice for patients that live at home. The telecare team offers 24/7 unplanned webcam contact. We observed and i...

Telecare is increasingly becoming a part of nursing care, and also in mental health care. In this paper, we study the effects telecare has on nursing care, by showing the first results of research on care by webcam for SMI (severely mentally ill) patients who live at home. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we show how the nursing practice is altered...

The increasing use of telecare will profoundly change nursing care. How to understand these changes is, however, far from clear. This is because (i) studies on telecare seldom consider the situation it replaces, and (ii) current concepts and methods used to study the impact of telecare may not allow us to fully grasp these changes. We suggest that...

This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study into challenges and dilemmas faced by mental health care professionals when implementing and applying videoconferencing with their clients. Focus was on two different forms of outreaching mental health care: intensive psychiatric family therapy (IPFT) and flexible assertive community treatmen...