H@H: A telemedicine suite for de-hospitalization of chronic disease patients

Author

Colizzi, L. ; Savino, N. ; Rametta, P. ; Rizzi, L. ; Fiorino, G. ; Piccininno, G. ; Piccinno, M. ; Rana, G. ; Petrosillo, F. ; Natrella, M. ; Laneve, L.

Author_Institution

Eng., Design & Mater. Technol. Center, ICT Dept., CETMA Consortium, Brindisi, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

H@H (Health at Home) is a web based monitoring system for de-hospitalization of patients suffering from chronic diseases, ensuring continuous assistance by monitoring, interaction and home therapy. Patients can greatly benefit from continuous in home monitoring of vital status via a patient monitoring system that integrates vital sign sensors, video communication with physicians and medical gases supply. The system is able to detect emergencies and activate a remote team for on site intervention, furthermore patients can require medical consultations at any times.

Keywords

diseases; medical computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; H@H system; Health at Home; chronic disease patient; dehospitalization; home therapy; telemedicine suite; video communication; vital sign sensor; web based monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Electronic mail; Monitoring; Oxygen; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6559-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687631

Filename

5687631