DocumentCode :
1788161
Title :
Telemedicine system for game-based rehabilitation of stroke patients in the FP7-“StrokeBack” project
Author :
Vogiatzaki, Emmanouela ; Gravezas, Yannis ; Dalezios, Nikos ; Biswas, D. ; Cranny, Andy ; Ortmann, Steffen ; Langendorfer, Peter ; Lamprinos, Ilias ; Giannakopoulou, Gioula ; Achner, Josy ; Klemke, Jasmin ; Jost, Holger
Author_Institution :
Res. for Sci., Art & Technol. (RFSAT), Sheffield, UK
fYear :
2014
fDate :
23-26 June 2014
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
Stroke is a disease with very high socio-economic impact. In average, the healthcare expenditure cost for Strokes across different countries in Europe and USA exceeds 3% of their entire healthcare expenditure, including inpatient treatments, outpatient hospital visits and long-term rehabilitation and care1 Therefore, there is an urgent need for devising an effective long-term care and rehabilitation strategy for stroke patients, which would actively involve patients in the rehabilitation process while minimizing costly human support. This paper reports on the results of the FP7-StrokeBack project where game-based training system has been proposed allowing physicians to supervise the rehabilitation of patents at home. The proposed approach empowers the patients and their caretakers for effective application of rehabilitation protocols in their home settings, while leading physicians are enabled to supervise the progress of the rehabilitation (and intervene if needed) through the use of Personal Health Record (PHR) system. The increased rehabilitation speed and ability to perform training at home directly improves quality of life of patients.
Keywords :
diseases; health care; patient care; patient rehabilitation; telemedicine; training; Europe; FP7-StrokeBack project; FP7-strokeback project; USA; game-based rehabilitation; game-based training system; healthcare expenditure; inpatient treatments; long-term care; long-term rehabilitation; outpatient hospital; personal health record; rehabilitation process; rehabilitation protocols; socio-economic impact; stroke patients; telemedicine system; Abstracts; Decision support systems; Europe; Games; Power demand; User interfaces; Virtual reality; Kinect; PHR; Personal Health Record; e-Health; immersive user interfaces; rehabilitation; stroke; virtual reality;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bologna
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882688
Filename :
6882688
Link To Document :
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