• DocumentCode
    654801
  • Title

    Building Long-Distance Health Care Network Using Minimized Portable Sensors and Active Alert System

  • Author

    Chun-Che Shih ; Kuang-Yi Chou ; Huan-Chao Keh ; Yuan-Cheng Cheng ; Po-Yuan Yu ; Nan-Ching Huang

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Clinical Med., Nat. Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    4-6 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    401
  • Lastpage
    404
  • Abstract
    The accelerated aging population around the world will be more obvious. In the USA, there will be about 72 million people aged 65 by 2030, There will have nearly 36.98% of the elderly population in Taiwan until 2050. Those people will need health care too. Nowadays, the current health care focus on the passive home care in Taiwan, however, the devices which can provide elder to carrying in outdoor will be huge and heavy, and also the devices will hard to actively send the alert message for the medical units when the patient have problem in their health. Therefore, the proposed of this study is to miniaturized vital sign detection and active alert system. The system will give elder the privacy, convenience, and security as well. Hoping this study can not only reduce the medical unit´s work but lower the medical resources cost, moreover, it will also enhance the quality of life for the patients.
  • Keywords
    assisted living; data mining; geriatrics; health care; sensors; telemedicine; Taiwan; USA; accelerated aging population; active alert system; long-distance health care network; medical resource cost; medical units; miniaturized vital sign detection; minimized portable sensors; passive home care; quality of life; Cities and towns; Educational institutions; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensors; Servers; Association rules; Data Mining; Health Care System; Long-distance Health Care; Tele-Healthcare;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2013 16th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Gwangju
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2509-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NBiS.2013.64
  • Filename
    6685432