Talk gets to heart of online cardiac rehab tool
Published on 30 April, 2009
All are welcome at a presentation about the progress of CQUniversity's electronic Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation (eOCR) platform.
The free event, from 1pm-2pm on Friday May 8, will outline the research, including the rationale and design of the randomized control trial for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. It will be held at Rockhampton Campus (Building 33/Room G. 14) with video links to campuses in Gladstone, Bundaberg, Mackay and Emerald.
Details are available via Dr Jim Douglas on 07 4930 9371 or j.douglas@cqu.edu.au
Professor Kerry Mummery said the eOCR platform was designed and developed by the research team at CQUniversity with the assistance of cardiac rehabilitation professionals.
"The platform is an internet-based educational content management system that provides the ‘online cardiac case manager' with the ability to deliver interactive outpatient education, track patient progress by means of an online patient self-monitoring system and interact with the patient and/or their selected significant others within the security-protected web-based platform," he said.
"The patient view of the eOCR site includes a ‘patient dashboard' which is specifically tailored by the case manager for the participant to collect, track and display important health and behavioural measures.
"The site contains a library comprised of readings drawn from existing ‘best practice' guidelines and the My Heart My Life publication by the Heart Foundation, along with a workbook that provides interactive educational activities relating to behavioral self management developed by the researchers in previous studies.
"The site also includes a variety of communication tools aimed at allowing patients to interact with their cardiac case manager, other patients and/or significant others that the patient has invited to take part.
"Communication tools include email, discussion boards, and an integrated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) programming link (Skype)."
Professor Mummery said the site also maintained records of the patient's contact details and those of significant others as well as emergency contact details and protocols.
"The online cardiac case manager has a separate content/patient management structure, which allows them to track the progress in terms of readings, educational activities and patient self-report data for one or more patients concurrently.
"The case manager can also interact with the patients under their guidance by way of site email, discussion or VoIP."
This presentation has been arranged by the Institute for Health and Social Science Research (IHSSR)