Clinical Decision Support Service for elderly people in smart home environment
Maqbool Hussain, Muhammad Afzal, Wajahat Ali Khan, Sungyoung Lee · 2012
With the advent of smart technologies potential ideas have been emerged to facilitate human lives. Based on sensor technologies, smart homes concept is prevailing now a days that intends to bring tremendous changes in human lifestyle. The most prominent application is to equip the smart home with monitoring system that facilitate in managing care for elderly people. Elderly people with chronic disease need continuous care for managing their activities specially medications. The cost is increasing on care of elderly people and often needs sparing of family resource to take care during management of their activities and medications. This paper propose idea of Clinical Decision Support Service (CDSS) that provides guidelines and recommendation based on observed activities of patient. Our proposed CDSS service called Smart CDSS is deployed on platform that support various sensors and emotion recognition applications. The Smart CDSS knowledge base is currently supporting diabetes rules extracted from online resources and validated against recommendation from physician for 100 patients during their visits to local hospital. The Smart CDSS service allow interaction through standard base interfaces following HL7 vMR standard that allow seamless integration to underlying platform. Moreover, HL7 Arden Syntax is incorporated to scale up knowledge base for other diseases and allows sharing of clinician knowledge.