Authors:
Mobyen Uddin Ahmed
1
;
Jesica Rivero Espinosa
2
;
Alenka Reissner
3
;
Àlex Domingo
4
;
Hadi Banaee
1
;
Amy Loutfi
1
and
Xavier Rafael-Palou
5
Affiliations:
1
Örebro University, Sweden
;
2
Technosite, Spain
;
3
Zveza Društev Upokojencev Slovenije, Slovenia
;
4
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
;
5
Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Spain
Keyword(s):
Healthcare Service, Health Monitoring, Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose, Pulse Rate, Activity Monitoring, Recommendation, Alarm.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
ICT, Ageing and Disability
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Today, the healthcare monitoring is not limited to take place in primary care facilities simply due to
deployment of ICT. However, to support an ICT-based health monitoring, proper health parameters, sensor
devices, data communications, approaches, methods and their combination are still open challenges. This
paper presents a self-serve ICT-based health monitoring system to support active ageing by assisting seniors
to participate in regular monitoring of elderly’s health condition. Here, the main objective is to facilitate a
number of healthcare services to enable good health outcomes of healthy active living. Therefore, the
proposed approach is identified and constructed three different kinds of healthcare services: 1) real time
feedback generation service, 2) historical summary calculation service and 3) recommendation generation
service. These services are implemented considering a number of health parameters, such as, 1) blood
pressure, 2) blood glucose, 3) medication compliance
, 4) weight monitoring, 5) physical activity, 6) pulse
monitoring etc. The services are evaluated in Spain and Slovenia through 2 prototypical systems, i.e.
year2prototype (Y2P) and year3prototype (Y3P) by 46 subjects (40 for Y2P and 6 for Y3P). The evaluation
results show the necessity and competence of the proposed healthcare services. In addition, the prototypical
system (i.e. Y3P) is found very much accepted and useful by most of the users.
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