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The aim of this work is to put forth some basic methodological aspects that are being followed in the demanding task of the development of a telemedical platform for the efficient control and management of chronic elderly patients. Among the main methodological concepts proposed there is: an integrated market-oriented approach, a user-centered design, an evaluation-driven development and a work plan...
Recently the problem of providing effective and appropriate healthcare to elderly and disable people is an important field in relative to the aging of population problems. The objective of information and communication technologies (ICT) is to focus on the new technologies the medical environments, so that it can provide management to accelerate and improve the clinical process. Our contribution is...
Penetration of the Internet has paved the way for the interactive video communication at home. Videos, which subjectively show entire views and give comprehensive overviews at a glance, serve as storable media and information contained in such excellently informative media has been increasingly stored as video image databases. Nevertheless, videos also have some disadvantages, for example, watching...
Health monitoring system is a crucial element which helps to the active prevention and effective treatment of the chronic illness with the worldwide population aging. This paper presents a health monitoring system based on Pocket PC for community aging residents according to the status in China. The test result of the prototype is good and it has some referenced value when implementing the community...
Due to the rapid increase of the population of elderly people, many countries have serious social problems. Technical approach is highly required to deal with such problems. One of serious problem can be found at nursing care of patients suffered by intractable disease like ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) and cerebral infraction. They need intensive cares by care-workers. As a typical symptom...
A wireless health recording and alert system for use by the elderly, athletes in training and firefighters has been devised and implemented. The system has a number of features that can be customized according to the user and type of service required. System consists of three units, i.e. sensor unit, base unit and server unit. The sensor unit basically measures a few physiological parameters in an...
With the increase of aging people, the task to maintain the health care level becomes heavier. To compensate for shortages of nurses and reduce the stress of nursing work, we have attempted to create an Internet based mobile robot system for hospitals or home healthcare. In this paper, we described a feasibility study and a basic platform design of a teleoperated healthcare service system via the...
In Japan, home helpers are employed by hospitals, care companies or the welfare office, and are sent to homes of elderly persons to provide home welfare and care services. The care items for one month are scheduled by the care manager; however, the care items are often changed by request from the client, and the home helpers need to know these changes as soon as possible. The Web-based care-requiring...
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