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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IB2COM.2010.5723634
