Title :
H@H: A telemedicine suite for de-hospitalization of chronic disease patients
Author :
Colizzi, L. ; Savino, N. ; Rametta, P. ; Rizzi, L. ; Fiorino, G. ; Piccininno, G. ; Piccinno, M. ; Rana, G. ; Petrosillo, F. ; Natrella, M. ; Laneve, L.
Author_Institution :
Eng., Design & Mater. Technol. Center, ICT Dept., CETMA Consortium, Brindisi, Italy
Abstract :
H@H (Health at Home) is a web based monitoring system for de-hospitalization of patients suffering from chronic diseases, ensuring continuous assistance by monitoring, interaction and home therapy. Patients can greatly benefit from continuous in home monitoring of vital status via a patient monitoring system that integrates vital sign sensors, video communication with physicians and medical gases supply. The system is able to detect emergencies and activate a remote team for on site intervention, furthermore patients can require medical consultations at any times.
Keywords :
diseases; medical computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; H@H system; Health at Home; chronic disease patient; dehospitalization; home therapy; telemedicine suite; video communication; vital sign sensor; web based monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Electronic mail; Monitoring; Oxygen; Servers;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6559-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687631