• DocumentCode
    2655417
  • Title

    Health @ Home: A telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure

  • Author

    Sánchez-Tato, Isabel ; Senciales, Jose Carlos ; Salinas, Jose ; Fanucci, Luca ; Pardini, Giuseppe ; Costalli, Filippo ; Dalmiani, Stefano ; De La Higuera, JoseMaría ; Vukovic, Zlatko ; Cicigoj, Zlatko

  • Author_Institution
    CITIC, Spain
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    15-17 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    This paper aims to show the necessity, requirements and development of an affordable monitoring and telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure. It presents Health @ Home1, a project partly co-funded by the European Ambient Assisted Living Programme (AAL) which has the purpose to provide an integral solution for the societal problems related to the provision of healthcare services for elderly citizens affected by chronic heart failure.
  • Keywords
    cardiology; health care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; AAL; European ambient assisted living programme; chronic heart failure; elderly citizen; health at home; healthcare service; monitoring system; patient; telecare system; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; Europe; Heart; Medical services; Monitoring; Sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Broadband and Biomedical Communications (IB2Com), 2010 Fifth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Malaga
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6951-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6952-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IB2COM.2010.5723634
  • Filename
    5723634
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2655417