Multiagent home telecare platform for patients with cardiac diseases

Author

Traver, V. ; Montón, E. ; Bayo, JL ; García, JM ; Hernández, J. ; Guillén, S.

Author_Institution

Bioengineering, Electron. & Telemedicine Group, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

120

Abstract

Paper presents a home telecare platform for patients with cardiac diseases usable by medical staff or patients through several agents: a personal digital assistant, a set-top-box (STB), a laptop, and a personal computer (PC), being valid for different cardiac disease scenarios: home intensive telecare, autonomous monitoring, and home hospitalisation. Platform is accessible via web through different technologies (xDSL, HFC, POTS, GPRS, and UMTS in a next future) and main features are videoconference, electronic history record, e-prescription, on-line and off-line monitorisation, scheduler, alarms managers and user customised cardiac information. Home telecare platform is being validated by the Cardiac Unit of 9 d´Octubre Hospital and Home Hospitalisation Unit of La Fe Hospital in Valencia, Spain with satisfactory results.

Keywords

Internet; cardiology; diseases; health care; laptop computers; medical information systems; notebook computers; patient monitoring; teleconferencing; telemedicine; 9 d´Octubre Hospital; GPRS; HFC; La Fe Hospital; POTS; Spain; UMTS; Valencia; alarms managers; autonomous monitoring; cardiac diseases; e-prescription; electronic history record; home hospitalisation; home intensive telecare; laptop; multiagent home telecare platform; off-line monitorisation; on-line monitorisation; personal computer; personal digital assistant; scheduler; set-top-box; user customised cardiac information; videoconference; world wide web; xDSL; Biomedical monitoring; Cardiac disease; Computerized monitoring; Hospitals; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Microcomputers; Patient monitoring; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; US Department of Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2003

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8170-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2003.1291104

Filename

1291104