Smart House Infrastructure for Chronic Disease Management
Neil W. Bergmann, Stephen Wilson · Medinfo 2007: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics; Building Sustainable Health Systems · 2007
Information and Communication Technologies are enablers for next generation home healthcare. This poster describes a proposed ICT-based home care system for chronic disease management. Key characteristics are patient-centred data ownership, broadband Internet connectivity, self-configuring networked instruments for measurement and treatment, individualized treatment rules and regimes, and automatically cascading levels of alarms and interventions.