Knowledge Base
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This section form the heart of the open telecare initiative. This is the place where ideas about how to implement open telecare are discussed.

How To Open Telecare briefly describes a proposal for implementing open telecare.
Here you find the pdf version of the document.
A presentation containing basic ideas about new care processes that use the Open Telecare approach. 
 

Scenarios
Here open telecare scenarios are presented. Scenario's propose open telecare work processes and the characteristics of the technology needed. These scenarios are open for discussion.

Scenario 1: Keeping your own electronic patient record
This concept was briefly described in De Volkskrant on november 10, 2008.
There were some comments from readers.
The links above take you to the newspaper clips.
Click here to read the discussion in the Volkskrant archive.


Projects
Descriptions of actual projects that can serve as sources of inspiration for your own telecare activities.

Project 1: Buiding your own Digital Vault for your medical record
This HowTo document describes how to build a prototype system that you can use for keeping your medical at home, and sharing them with others over the internet.

Project 2: Interfacing a Nonin 4100 oximeter over Bluetooth
This HowTo document explains how to connect an device that can measure heart rate and oxigen saturation with OpenWrt Linux running on an ASUS WL-500G Premium.

Forum
This is where discussions take place.

Library
Here you can find relevant literature and/or references that others found worthwhile sharing with you.

A letter to Arda Gerkens, member of the Dutch parliament for the SP, in which Rob Kleissen explains his views on the current approach taken by the Dutch government towards the implementation of the Electronic Patient Record.

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