ERMHAN: A multi-channel context-aware platform to support mobile caregivers in continuous care networks

Author

Paganelli, F. ; Spinicci, E. ; Mamelli, A. ; Bernazzani, R. ; Barone, P.

Author_Institution

Consorzio Nazionale Inter-Univ. per le Telecomunicazioni, Florence

fYear

2007

fDate

15-20 July 2007

Firstpage

355

Lastpage

360

Abstract

Continuous care models for chronic diseases pose several technology-oriented challenges for home-based continuous care, where assistance services rely on a close collaboration among different stakeholders such as health operators, patient relatives and social community members. ERMHAN is a multi-channel context-aware service platform designed to support care networks in cooperating and sharing information with the common goal of improving patient quality of life. In order to meet extensibility and flexibility requirements, this platform has been developed through ontology-based context-aware computing and a service oriented approach.

Keywords

biomedical communication; diseases; medical computing; mobile communication; mobile computing; patient care; ERMHAN; chronic diseases; continuous care networks; home-based continuous care; mobile caregivers; multi-channel context-aware platform; ontology-based context-aware computing; service oriented approach; Aging; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Demography; Diseases; Medical services; Ontologies; Senior citizens; context model; continuous care; home-based care; mobile multi-channel service platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Services, IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1325-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1326-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283939

Filename

4283939