Health pal: a PDA phone that will take care of your health

Author

Fan, Shih-Chen ; Wen, Ming-Hui ; Hsu, Chun-Tang ; Hung, Chung-Hao ; Hsu, Shang-Hwa ; Chuang, Ming-Chuen ; Zao, John K. ; Lin, Chin-Teng

fYear

2007

fDate

7-10 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

3703

Lastpage

3708

Abstract

The Kannon project at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan has designed a smart PDA phone, christened Health Pal, to help elders to manage their healthcare needs such as planning their own physician visits, medication schedules, exercise routines as well as monitoring their blood pressures, pulse rates and oxygen levels. The paper reports the design concepts of the device as well as the activity oriented approach the team undertook during the design process. A comparison of this device against several similar prototypes was also included to highlight its unique features.

Keywords

health care; mobile computing; mobile handsets; notebook computers; patient monitoring; Health Pal; blood pressure monitoring; healthcare management; oxygen level monitoring; personal digital assistant; pulse rate monitoring; smart PDA phone; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Cellular phones; Job shop scheduling; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Project management; Smart phones; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2007. ISIC. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0990-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0991-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4414196

Filename

4414196