Title :
Delivery of healthcare services over mobile phones: e-Vital and CHS paradigms
Author :
Prentza, A. ; Maglavera, S. ; Leondaridis, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept of Electr. & Comput. Eng., ICCS-NTUA, Athens
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Abstract :
Health delivery practices are shifting towards home care, since there are better possibilities for managing chronic care, controlling health delivery costs, increasing quality of life and quality of health services and the distinct possibility of predicting and thus avoiding serious complications. Mobility brings a totally new dimension to the healthcare domain and to the whole interdisciplinary provision of regional healthcare. Healthcare services can be provided in virtually any location, where access to a mobile communications system is available. Mobile tele-health systems apply mobility as a potential means in order to bring significant improvements to emergency, treatment, routine check-ups and medical consultation, e-Vital project (eTen) and CHS project (IST) worked towards m-health applications
Keywords :
health care; mobile communication; telemedicine; CHS paradigm; chronic care; e-Vital paradigm; health delivery cost control; healthcare service delivery; home care; medical consultation; mobile communications system; mobile phones; mobile tele-health systems; quality of health services; quality of life; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Costs; Laboratories; Medical services; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Research and development; Telephony; Ubiquitous computing;
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.2006.260232
