Our Sponsors
 Witham Memorial
Hospital Home Health Care, Lebanon IN
Fall 1996 - Spring 1997.
Witham is a non-profit organization chartered with caring for patients
who are home bound due to injury, age, or illness.
Visiting Nurse
Home Health Services, Lafayette IN
Fall 1995 - Fall 1996 & Fall 1997 .
VNHHS is a non-profit organization that provides medical care for persons
who are home bound. A large portion of this service requires a data management
system to collect and maintain information necessary for the organization.
Our goal for VNHHS is to create new methods of data management and to update
existing systems.
Spring 1998 Tasks
Nurse
Scheduling
The nurse scheduling task involves automating the scheduling of visits
for nurses, patients and possibly home health aides in the future. The
task includes the development of a database containing nurse and patient
information, the development of a scheduling algorithm, and the distribution
of the information. The integration of MAP and form generation for the
WMHHHC group will also be involved in the nurse scheduling task.
Mileage Automation
Program
The mileage automation program (MAP) is a tool used to calculate the distances
traveled by the nurses and reimburse them for their travel. Currently,
the health aides are reimbursed for their travels after they complete a
mileage reimbursement form. The form entails a list of patient visits in
one column and the odometer reading at each corresponding home in another
column. Then, once the form is complete, Witham administration calculates
the reimbursement based on the miles traveled.
Home Hardware
Systems
The Task concept arose from the difficulty of several home bound patients
with getting around in the house. The patients often have to leave their
doors unlocked in order to allow visiting nurses to enter and leave during
visits. With this in mind, the concept of designing a device to remotely
control the light switches and door locks. The device will be physically
mounted to the existing light switches and locks, and they will mechanically
control the operate the motions of the switches and locks.
Digital Peak
Flow Meters
The DPFM is an adaptation of the mechanical Peak Flow Meters currently
used by asthma patients to monitor their lung capacity. For severe asthmatics,
the Peak Flow Meter is used daily and the patients are required to graph
their progress. Research has shown that manually tracking this information
is cumbersome for the patients, therefore they may not obtain accurate
data. A Digital Peak Flow Meter would remove the need for patients to manually
track their data and would facilitate accurate collection of data.
Additional project information
- Project
archive & museum
- A collection of the goals and accomplishments of this project, presented
using hypertext and/or images. This location will also be used as the primary
site for distribution of any software, etc., developed by the group.
- Project
team
- Information about the students and others who have served on this project,
including how to contact the current team members.
- Project
internal information
- Information for use within the project team. This includes internal
report forms, reference materials, etc. Some of this information may be
accessible only by members of the project team.
Descriptions of other Engineering Projects In Community Service projects
can be found via the EPICS
overview page.
Please submit comments or questions to vnhhs@ecn.purdue.edu
This page was last modified December 1, 1997.
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