Title :
An efficient solution to ubiquitous health care system from clinics to patients
Author :
Ho, Chen-Shie ; Shiao, Li-Jen ; Liu, Li
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Van Nung Univ., Chung Li, Taiwan
Abstract :
Health care and medical organizations utilize various management information systems and communication technologies to improve their service availability and operating efficiency to the patients, employ them to reduce administrative costs, and make organizations more competitive. In contrast to most of the existing health care solutions which require more investment and require the patient from having enough knowledge background to use them, we propose a novel and efficient solution in this paper to implement the low cost health care system by making use of the sensing system and wireless network-based technology. The system components related to such solution and implementation considerations are also studied. The benefits include easy to setup, use and maintenance; low cost to service providers and patients; and can achieve simple and reliable information accessing.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; decision support systems; health care; medical information systems; mobile communication; telemedicine; wireless sensor networks; communication technology; management information system; medical organization; patients health care; sensing system; ubiquitous health care system; wireless network-based technology; Bluetooth; Costs; Hospitals; Maintenance; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Medical treatment; Radiofrequency identification; Technology management; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Enterprise networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 2005. HEALTHCOM 2005. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8940-9
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2005.1500427