Computer Support for Home-Based Health Care
Kartik Mani · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2001
Home-based health monitoring systems have been shown to be effective in helping patients manage chronic illness, but require significant effort from both the patient and support staff. This thesis describes the design and development of a software package that provides physicians and patients an interactive, automated system to assist with home-based health care. It discusses the requirements for effective home-based monitoring and considers different architectural approaches to providing auto-mated acquisition and storage of patient physiological readings as well as gathering