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Table 11 Health care settings and improvement aims

From: Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review

  

Health care settings

  

Ambulatory

Home/mobile

Clinical

Care

Emergency

Organizational improvements

n (%)

2 (3%)

4 (6%)

16 (24%)

2 (3%)

5 (7%)

 

References

[84, 91]

[21, 23]

[13, 29, 43, 44, 47, 5456, 70, 71, 7476, 78, 79, 8183, 87]

[39, 73]

[54, 63, 80, 87, 91]

Medical improvements

Therapy and rehabilitation

n (%)

2 (3%)

7 (10%)

1 (1%)

0

0

 

References

[31, 46]

[22, 31, 5052, 57, 85]

[46]

  

Prevention and care

n (%)

2 (3%)

32 (48%)

10 (15%)

4(6%)

3 (4%)

 

References

[31, 46]

[21, 23, 24, 2628, 30, 31, 3338, 4042, 45, 48, 49, 53, 58, 59, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 86, 88]

[29, 32, 41, 42, 46, 53, 61, 64, 77, 87, 88]

[39, 64, 67, 69]

[24, 60, 87]

  1. Note: Multiple entries in different categories are possible. The percentages refer to all 67 systems reviewed.