Title :
A pervasive and preventive healthcare solution for medication noncompliance and daily monitoring
Author :
Pang, Zhibo ; Chen, Qiang ; Zheng, Lirong
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., R. Inst. of Technol. (KTH), Kista-Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
Pervasive healthcare solution for medication noncompliance problem would help to save $177 billion annually in the United States. And the rapidly increasing demanding of daily monitoring with onsite diagnosis and prognosis is driving homecare solutions to integrate more and more sensing and data processing capacities. So a powerful system is needed not only to address the medication noncompliance but also to be used as a pervasive healthcare station in home. In this paper, a pervasive and preventive healthcare solution for medication noncompliance and daily monitoring is proposed using an intelligent package sealed by controlled delamination material (CDM) and controlled by radio frequency identification (RFID). Onsite diagnosis and prognosis capacities for kinds of health parameters are supported due to scalable and intensive computing capacitance of the 2D-Mesh-NoC based multi-core architecture. Additionally, friendly human-machine interface is emphasized to make it usable for the elderly, disabled and patients due to enhanced multimedia performance. Experimental results of an implemented prototype confirmed the necessity of the multi-core architecture and approved the feasibility of the proposed intelligent package.
Keywords :
health care; network-on-chip; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; user interfaces; 2D-mesh-NoC based multicore architecture; RFID; controlled delamination material; daily monitoring; disabled patients; elderly patients; homecare solutions; human-machine interface; intelligent package; intensive computing capacitance; medication noncompliance; onsite diagnosis; pervasive healthcare solution; preventive healthcare solution; prognosis capacity; radio frequency identification; scalable computing capacitance; Computer architecture; Data processing; Delamination; Medical control systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Monitoring; Packaging; Radio control; Radiofrequency identification; Controlled Delamination Material (CDM); Intelligent Package; Medication Noncompliance; Network on Chip (NoC); Onsite Diagnosis and Prognosis; Pervasive Healthcare; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Wireless Sensor Network (WSN);
Conference_Titel :
Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2009. ISABEL 2009. 2nd International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Bratislava
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4640-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4641-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373681
