Title :
A home telecare management system
Author :
Rodríguez, M.J. ; Arredondo, M.T. ; del Pozo, F. ; Gómez, E.J. ; Martínez, A. ; Dopico, A.
Author_Institution :
Grupo de Bioingenieria y Telemedicina, ETSI Telecom, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The actual tendency to discharge chronic patients from hospitals, as well as the increasing request for improving quality of life of elderly and disabled people at home, was the original motivation of the development of the Home Telecare Management System (HTCMS), here described. The HTCMS allows, at the Home Telecare Service Center, the remote monitoring of biological signals and data and the management of different types of alarm calls generated at home
Keywords :
patient monitoring; Home Telecare Service Center; alarm calls; biological signals; chronic patients; home telecare management system; patient discharge; remote monitoring; Application software; Biomedical measurements; Disaster management; Electrocardiography; Environmental management; Heart rate; Patient monitoring; Protocols; Prototypes; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2050-6
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1994.415300
