Title :
Continuous home care monitoring services through INTERLIFE
Author :
Maglavera, S. ; Prentza, A. ; Maglaveras, N. ; Lekka, I. ; Sakka, E. ; Leondaridis, L.
Author_Institution :
NETSMART S.A., Athens
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
INTERLIFE is a revolutionary product that can radically change the way healthcare services are offered by introducing new means for quality health care management by the healthcare providers, and by improving the patients´, health providers´ and citizens´ quality of life. INTERLIFE is a technological and medical knowledge management and processing infrastructure able to support an early discharge and a continuous home monitoring service thus leading to reduction hospitalisation rates and to the increased efficacy of healthcare service delivery of patients suffering from chronic diseases such as CHF, COPD and Diabetes as well as a special category of acute health care related patients. Six test sites are participating in the validation trials, more specifically EAP Sardenya and MUTUAM in Spain, Hippokrateion Hospital and AHEPA Hospital in Greece, RAMIT in Belgium and University of Regensburg Medical Centre in Germany
Keywords :
biomedical education; computerised monitoring; diseases; health care; medical computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; AHEPA Hospital; Germany; Greece; Hippokrateion Hospital; INTERLIFE; RAMIT; University of Regensburg Medical Centre; chronic diseases; continuous home care monitoring services; diabetes; health care management; healthcare service delivery; hospitalisation rate reduction; infrastructure processing; medical knowledge management; quality of life; Application software; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical informatics; Biomedical monitoring; Diseases; Hospitals; Laboratories; Medical services; Quality management;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260230