Title :
Tele-Medical Applications in Home-Based Health Care
Author :
Al-Attas, Reem ; Yassine, Abdulsalam ; Shirmohammadi, Shervin
Author_Institution :
Distrib. & Collaborative Virtual Environments Res. Lab. (DISCOVER Lab.), Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Tele-home-care systems are becoming more important for patients and society at large. Despite some surveys focusing on medical devices interoperability used on home-care systems, electronic measurements in rehabilitation, configuration of body area networks, a survey and taxonomy of enabling technologies for tele-home-care systems does not exist. This paper presents a survey and taxonomy of the design approaches. The discussion of open issues and suggestions for further research are detailed in this paper.
Keywords :
body area networks; health care; open systems; patient rehabilitation; telemedicine; body area networks; electronic measurements; home care systems; home-based health care; medical devices interoperability; rehabilitation; tele-home-care systems; telemedical applications; Biomedical monitoring; Body area networks; Conferences; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensors; ambient systems; home based health care; tele health care;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2027-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICMEW.2012.83
