Authors:
Steffen Ortmann
and
Peter Langendörfer
Affiliation:
IHP, Germany
Keyword(s):
Telemedicine, Rehabilitation, Stroke, Body area network, Quality of life.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Cloud Computing
;
Devices
;
e-Health
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Telemedicine
;
Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
;
Wearable Sensors and Systems
Abstract:
Analysis showed that costs of long-term care for stroke patients have increased from 13% to 49% of overall costs in average in recent years. Therefore there is an urgent need for devising an effective long-term care and rehabilitation strategy for stroke patients, which will involve the patients actively in the process. The goal of our approach is the development of a telemedicine system which supports ambulant rehabilitation at home settings for stroke patients with minimal human intervention. This system will combine state-of-the-art
monitoring devices forming a wireless Body Area Network that enable simultaneous measurement of multiple vital parameters and currently executed movements that are particularly of interest from a Stroke rehabilitation point of view. It will empower the patient to do more for fast recovery than today and provides clinical experts with data not available today. By that, it leads also to a better understanding of the stroke recovery process, higher recove
ry speed and thus, to reduced healthcare cost while improving patients’ quality of life.
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