The American Society for Quality (ASQ) conducted an online poll with 475 U.S. healthcare quality professionals who are part of the ASQ quality community http://bit.ly/jivNXB. The report states that healthcare quality will be most impacted by shortages of clinicians including occupational and physical therapists both in the acute and sub acute and outpatients settings. One of the solutions proposed to allow healthcare organizations to prevent these shortage-related quality issues is the implementation of Telemedicine, remote monitoring systems and telerehabilitation programs.
The HandTutor and ArmTutor systems are used to give tele-rehabilitation world wide to children with arm and hand movement impairments and to supplement tradition occupational and physical therapy. The LegTutor system allows for patients to undertake a supervised and motivating exercise program for the knee and hip in their own homes following orthopedic trauma, disease and surgery.
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