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The paper presents a mobile app designed to be used by health care providers, mainly by the nurses that pay visits to the homes of the clients/patients of the health care providers. The app should optimize the nurses activity and also the communication between the nurses and the coordinators and between the nurses and the patients. The described mobile app is part of a larger software platform as will be described in the article.
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This work has been supported by Project Dispatching and Management Center for Optimizing Home Care Integrated Services, from Operational Competitiveness Program 2014-2020 Axis 1 – Romanian Research Ministry.
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Sandulescu, V., Puscoci, S., Petre, M., Soviany, S., Chirvasa, M., Girlea, A. (2020). Mobile App for Optimizing Home Care Nursing. In: O'Hare, G., O'Grady, M., O’Donoghue, J., Henn, P. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49289-2_26
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