Managing chronic disease with home telecare: a system architecture and case study

Author

Lovell, N.H. ; Celler, B.G. ; Basilakis, J. ; Magrabi, F. ; Huynh, K. ; Mathie, M.

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Biomed. Eng., New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1896

Abstract

An overview of the system architecture of a home telecare system (HTS) that was successfully deployed in city and rural Australia Is presented. We describe a case study from a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was monitored in her home for a six-month period. A summary of patient and clinician responses to initial and final evaluation questionnaires is presented. There was generally a high level of acceptance of the HTS with both patients and their general practitioners responding favorably on its ease of use, effectiveness and likely impact on improving management of chronic disease.

Keywords

Internet; graphical user interfaces; home computing; patient monitoring; telemedicine; Internet; chronic disease; clinician responses; graphical user interface; home clinical workstation; home monitoring; home telecare system; obstructive pulmonary disease; patient responses; system architecture; wearable ambulatory monitoring unit; Australia; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Cities and towns; Computer aided software engineering; Electrocardiography; High temperature superconductors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053082

Filename

1053082