학술논문

Managing chronic disease with home telecare: a system architecture and case study
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of the Second Joint 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society] [Engineering in Medicine and Biology Joint EMBS-BMES conference Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint. 3:1896-1897 vol.3 2002
Subject
Bioengineering
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computer aided software engineering
Australia
Patient monitoring
High temperature superconductors
Medical services
Cardiac disease
Cardiovascular diseases
Electrocardiography
Cities and towns
Statistics
Language
ISSN
1094-687X
Abstract
An overview of the system architecture of a home telecare system (HTS) that was successfully deployed in city and rural Australia Is presented. We describe a case study from a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was monitored in her home for a six-month period. A summary of patient and clinician responses to initial and final evaluation questionnaires is presented. There was generally a high level of acceptance of the HTS with both patients and their general practitioners responding favorably on its ease of use, effectiveness and likely impact on improving management of chronic disease.