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KMID : 1100520170230010067
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Healthcare Informatics Research
2017 Volume.23 No. 1 p.67 ~ p.73
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Cost-Effective Mobile-Based Healthcare System for Managing Total Joint Arthroplasty Follow-Up
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Bitsaki Marina
Koutras George
Heep Hansjoerg
Koutras Christos
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Abstract
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Objectives: Long-term follow-up care after total joint arthroplasty is essential to evaluate hip and knee arthroplasty outcomes, to provide information to physicians and improve arthroplasty performance, and to improve patients’ health condition. In this paper, we aim to improve the communication between arthroplasty patients and physicians and to reduce the cost of follow-up controls based on mobile application technologies and cloud computing.
Methods: We propose a mobilebased healthcare system that provides cost-effective follow-up controls for primary arthroplasty patients through questionsabout symptoms in the replaced joint, questionnaires (WOMAC and SF-36v2) and the radiological examination of knee or hip joint. We also perform a cost analysis for a set of 423 patients that were treated in the University Clinic for Orthopedics in Essen-Werden.
Results: The estimation of healthcare costs shows significant cost savings (a reduction of 63.67% for readmission rate 5%) in both the University Clinic for Orthopedics in Essen-Werden and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia when the mobile-based healthcare system is applied.
Conclusions: We propose a mHealth system to reduce the cost of follow-up assessments of arthroplasty patients through evaluation of diagnosis, self-monitoring, and regular review of their health status.
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KEYWORD
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Replacement Arthroplasty, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Mobile Applications, Database Management Systems
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