A Robotic Device to Enhance Nursing Home Provider Telepresence during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges to face-to-face communication with people residing in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings. Telemedicine is an alternative, but facility staff may be over-burdened with the management of the equipment. Here we introduce the use of a mobile HIPPA-compliant telepresence robot (MTR) to bridge this barrier which may be beneficial to reimagine options for PALTC in the future.

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This pragmatic innovation demonstrates use of a robot to provide clinical PALTC telepresence with minimal staff burden during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Am Med Dir Assoc

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Am Med Dir Assoc

Title: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Publisher: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of AMDA -- The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

ISSN (Print): 1525-8610

ISSN (Electronic): 1538-9375

Publication date PMC-release: 19 November 2021

Publication date (Electronic): 19 November 2021

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[a ]University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Medicine ^; Omaha, NE, USA;

[b ]University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Gerontology, Omaha, NE, USA

[c ]University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, Omaha, NE, USA;

[d ]University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, USA

[e ]University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Omaha, NE, USA

[f ]Nebraska Medicine, Nebraska Infection Control Assessment and Promotion Program, Omaha, NE, USA

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[# ]Corresponding Author: Natalie Manley, MD, MPH, CMD; University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Internal Medicine Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Medicine; 986155 Nebraska Medical Center; Omaha, NE, 68198-6155; Phone: 402-559-9600;

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Indicates contributed equally and share second author position

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Publisher Item ID: S1525-8610(21)00983-X

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.11.013

PMC ID: 8603033

PubMed ID: 34896058

SO-VID: 19d555cb-1cab-49bf-b4a8-88e881f48682

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Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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Date received : 28 June 2021

Date revision received : 22 October 2021

Date accepted : 15 November 2021

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